Balthasar Gossner

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Balthasar Gossner , also Balthasar Goßner (born January 3, 1877 in Zaiertshofen ( Swabia ), † November 7, 1937 in Krumbach) was a German mineralogist and crystallographer .

Life

Gossner received his doctorate in Munich in 1902 and completed his habilitation in 1908 at the Ludwig Maximilians University there . From October 11, 1920 to March 31, 1925 he was associate professor and successor to Paul Niggli at the University of Tübingen and the mineralogical collection of the Museum of the University of Tübingen .

He was then until 1937, as the successor to Paul Heinrich von Groth, full professor and director of the Mineralogical State Collection Munich of the State Natural Science Collections of Bavaria .

Fonts

  • Crystal calculation and crystal drawing , Leipzig, W. Engelmann, 1914
  • The chemical structure of silicates , Tübingen, JCB Mohr, 1923
  • Textbook of Mineralogy , Leipzig, Friedrich Brandstetter, 1924
  • with Karl Hugo Strunz : About the structural relationships between phosphates (triphylene) and silicates (olivine) and about the chemical composition of ardennite , 1932

literature

Individual evidence

  1. Laetitia Boehm, Johannes Spörl: The Ludwig Maximillians University in their faculties . Duncker & Humblot Verlag, 1st edition 1980, ISBN 3-428-04737-0 , p. 434
  2. Wolf von Engelhardt, Helmut Hölder: Mineralogy, geology and paleontology at the University of Tübingen from the beginnings to the present . Contubernium, Volume 20, 1977, p. 44