Hanns Bruno Geinitz

Portrait of Hanns Bruno Geinitz

Signature of a letter dated February 6, 1846 to Laurent-Guillaume de Koninck

Grave of Hanns Bruno Geinitz in the old Annenfriedhof in Dresden.

Hanns Bruno Geinitz (born October 16, 1814 in Altenburg , † January 28, 1900 in Dresden ) was a German geologist, mineralogist and paleontologist. He is the father of the geologist Eugen Geinitz .

Geinitz researched among other things the sandstones and limestones of the Cretaceous Period in Saxony and Bohemia and the fossil plants and animals in the rocks of the Permian ( Dyas ). He described the graptolites of Silurian deposits and examined the fossil plants contained in the strata of the coal deposits of the Altai Mountains and Nebraska .

Life

After training as a pharmacist, the son of the Altenburg building supervisor Johann Christian Traugott Geinitz began studying natural sciences at the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität zu Berlin in 1834 , which he continued at the Jena University from 1837 . There he received his doctorate in the same year with his thesis on Thuringian Muschelkalk.

Since 1838 Geinitz taught physics and chemistry at the Kgl. Polytechnic School in Dresden . In 1844 he became a member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina . His appointment as inspector of the Kgl. Mineral Cabinet took place in 1846. In 1850 Geinitz was appointed to the newly created chair for geognosy, mineralogy and natural history at the Polytechnic School in Dresden.

In 1856 Geinitz and other interested parties founded the Karcha-Dresdner Braunkohlen-Verein, whose board of directors he chaired. Since the coal deposit in Karcha was not suitable for the planned photogen production, he found a suitable deposit in the shale coal from Markersdorf near Böhmisch Kamnitz . The association set up a branch and began dismantling and building the Markersdorf photogen factory. Thus the financial resources of the association were exhausted and no profit could be achieved due to the increased import duties from Bohemia, so that the association went bankrupt in 1860.

In 1857 Geinitz was appointed director of the newly established Kgl. Mineralogical and Geological Museum in Dresden . In 1894 he retired.

Between 1863 and 1879 he edited together with Gustav von Leonhard the New Yearbook for Mineralogy, Geology and Paleontology and published the Centralblatt für Mineralogie, Geologie und Paläontologie . In 1887 he was elected a full member of the Royal Saxon Society of Sciences .

The grave of Geinitz is on the old Annenfriedhof in the Dresdner Südvorstadt .

Honors

In 1878 the Geological Society of London honored him with the Murchison Medal .

In 1894 he was awarded the Leopoldina's Cothenius Medal as an outstanding author of particularly important scientific papers .

Geinitz was made an honorary member of the Nassau Association for Natural History and was honorary president of the Dresden Isis .

From Dr. Dedo Geinitz, a descendant of Prof. Hanns Bruno Geinitz in the fifth generation, has been donated the Hanns Bruno Geinitz Prize, which has been awarded at irregular intervals by the State Natural History Collections in Dresden since 2002. This is given to a young geoscientist for an outstanding scientific achievement in the geosciences (e.g. dissertation, habilitation, publication, map series, etc.), a very successful project in the field of applied geosciences or awarded an extraordinary, easily understandable presentation of geoscientific topics (e.g. book).

Fonts

• Contribution to the knowledge of the Thuringian Muschelkalkgebirge , 1837 ( online )
• Characteristics of the strata and petrefacts of the Saxon-Bohemian chalk mountains , Dresden / Leipzig, 1839–1842 (online: first issue , second issue , third issue doi: 10.5962 / bhl.title.49757 )
• About the brown coals of Saxony , Dresden 1840
• The fossils of Kieslingswalda and addendum to the characteristics of the layers and petrefacts of the Saxon-Bohemian chalk mountains Dresden / Leipzig 1843 ( online )
• Gäa of Saxony , Dresden 1843 ( online )
• About the crystal systems possible and actually occurring in nature , Dresden 1843
• Floor plan of the petrification customer , Arnoldsche Buchhandlung Dresden / Leipzig 1846 ( online )
• The Ashlar Sandstone Mountains or Chalk Mountains in Germany , Craz & Gerlach Freiberg 1848–1850 ( online )
• The Quadergebirge or the chalk formation in Saxony, with special consideration of the layers rich in glauconite , Fürstlich Jablonowski'sche Gesellschaft zu Leipzig, 1850. ( online )
• Depiction of the flora of the Hainichen-Ebersdorfer and the Floeha coal basin compared to the flora of the Zwickau coal mountains , Leipzig: Hirzel 1854
• The fossils of the coal formation in Saxony , Leipzig: Engelmann 1855 ( online )
• The Royal Mineralogical Museum in Dresden , Dresden: Blochmann 1858 a. 1873 ( online )
• The animal remains of the dyas. Dyas or the Zechstein formation and the Rothliegende , Issue 1, Verlag Wilhelm Engelmann Leipzig 1861–1862. ( online ) doi: 10.5962 / bhl.title.14946
• The coal of Germany and other European countries , Leipzig 1865
• Carbon formation and dyas in Nebraska. Negotiations of the Imperial Leopoldino-Carolinian German Academy of Natural Scientists , Dresden 1866. doi: 10.5962 / bhl.title.14875 , Archive
• The fossil fish scales from the skirmish limestone in Strehlen . 1868 doi: 10.5962 / bhl.title.5026 , Archive
• The Elbe Mountains in Saxony. Palaeontographica Cassel 1871–1875, 2 vols. ( Online ) doi: 10.5962 / bhl.title.48688
• About Rhaetian plant and animal remains from the Argentine La Rioja, San Juan and Mendoza , in Alfred Stelzner, Contributions to the geology and paleontology of the Argentine Republic , II: Palaeontological part, Kassel: Theodor Fischer 1876, archive
• The urn fields of Strehlen and Großenhain. Communications from the Kgl. Mineralogical Museum in Dresden, Kassel: Theodor Fischer 1876, archive
• About new finds in the phosphate deposits of Helmstedt, Büddenstedt and Schleweke , communication from the Kgl. Mineralogical Museum, Dresden 1883, archive
• The Baurath [Johann Christian Traugott] Geinitz in Altenburg , Dresden: Baensch 1897

literature

• Christian Geinitz: Hanns Bruno Geinitz as an example of social advancement in central Germany in the 19th century . in: Geologica Saxonica 60/2014, pp. 267–272 ( digitized version )
• F. Eugen Geinitz; Hanns Bruno Geinitz, a picture of life from the 19th century. Hall / S. 1900 ( digitized version )
• Brigitte and Siegfried Grunert: Hanns Bruno Geinitz - the first professor of geology at the Technical University of Dresden - on the 100th anniversary of his death . In: Geologica Saxonica . Museum of Mineralogy and Geology, Dresden 2001, ISSN  1617-8467 ( writings of the Museum of Mineralogy and Geology Dresden . Volume 46/47.).
• Brigitte and Siegfried Grunert: The life of Professor Hanns Bruno Geinitz in documents . In: Geologica Saxonica 52-53 / 2007, pp. 143–204 ( digital copy ; PDF; 7.0 MB)
• Christel Hebig: A great life through a great work. On the 100th anniversary of Hanns Bruno Geinitz's death . In: Abstracts and excursion guide. International Hanns Bruno Geinitz Symposium . Museum of Mineralogy and Geology, Dresden 2000, ISBN 3-910006-24-8 ( writings of the Museum of Mineralogy and Geology Dresden. Volume 11.).
• E. Kühne: List of publications by Hanns Bruno Geinitz . In: Abstracts and excursion guide. International Hanns Bruno Geinitz Symposium . Museum of Mineralogy and Geology, Dresden 2000, ISBN 3-910006-24-8 ( writings of the Museum of Mineralogy and Geology Dresden . Volume 11.).
• Max Pfannenstiel :  Geinitz, Hanns Bruno. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 6, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1964, ISBN 3-428-00187-7 , p. 151 f. ( Digitized version ).

Individual evidence

1. ^ Winner of the Cothenius Medal of the Leopoldina
2. ↑ Hanns Bruno Geinitz Prize ( Memento of the original from June 21, 2006 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 

Web links

• Literature by and about Hanns Bruno Geinitz in the catalog of the German National Library
• Literature by and about Hanns Bruno Geinitz in the Saxon Bibliography
• Literature by Hanns-Bruno Geinitz
• Article in Stadtwiki Dresden