Bruno Sander

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Hermann Max Bruno Sander (born February 23, 1884 in Innsbruck ; † September 5, 1979 ibid) was an Austrian geologist.

Life

Sander grew up in Bolzano and, after graduating from high school in 1902, studied zoology, mineralogy, botany, physics and mathematics at the University of Innsbruck , where he received his doctorate in geology in 1907 with a study of the granites in Brixen . He then worked as an assistant at the TH Vienna and from 1909 at the University of Innsbruck, where he completed his habilitation in 1912 . From 1913 he was at the Geological Reichsanstalt , interrupted by a time in the First World War when he examined deposits in Bulgaria and Turkey on behalf of the Austro-Hungarian War Ministry . At the Geological Reichsanstalt he was busy with geological mapping in South Tyrol. From 1920 he was again at the Geological State Institute in Vienna and from 1922 Professor of Mineralogy and Petrography at the University of Innsbruck. In 1955 he retired.

He is considered a pioneer in structural engineering with applications in rock mechanics and engineering geology, for example.

In addition to his work as a geologist, he was also a writer who published under the pseudonym Anton Santer. He belonged to the Brenner Group even before the First World War and published poems in their magazine Der Brenner , later in the magazine Wort im Gebirge and the Seefelder Zeitung .

His estate is in the Brenner archive of the University of Innsbruck.

In 1950 Sander received the Gustav Steinmann Medal . In 1956 he was awarded an international Antonio Feltrinelli Prize . In 1958 he received the Eduard Sueß commemorative coin and became an honorary member of the Austrian Geological Society . In 1956 he received the Friedrich Becke Medal of the Austrian Mineralogical Society , in 1956 the Andrée Dumont Medal of the Belgian Geological Society, in 1957 the Penrose Medal and in 1964 the Abraham Gottlob Werner Medal . He was an honorary doctor of the University of Göttingen (1937) and the University of Vienna (1959). In 1936 he was elected a member of the Leopoldina . He was a member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (corresponding member since 1940 and full member since 1944) and the Academies of Sciences in Bologna (1942), Uppsala (1947) and Berlin (1950) as well as Washington (1966, National Academy of Sciences ). In 1959 he received the Austrian Decoration for Science and Art, in 1967 the Decoration of Honor of the State of Tyrol and in 1955 the Ring of Honor of the City of Innsbruck. The building of the Faculty of Geo- and Atmospheric Sciences at the University of Innsbruck was named after Bruno Sander. Waldemar Berdesinski named the mineral sanderite after him in 1952 .

Fonts

  • Structural science of the rocks with special consideration of the tectonites , Vienna, Springer Verlag 1930
  • Introduction to the structure of geological bodies , 2 volumes, Springer Verlag 1948, 1950
  • Contributions to the knowledge of the sedimentation structure , Tschermaks Mineralogische und Petrographische Mitteilungen, Volume 48, 1936, pp. 27-209
  • Petrofabrics and Orogenesis , American Journal of Science, Volume 28, 1934, pp. 37-50
  • An introduction to the study of fabrics of geological bodies , Pergamon Press 1970

literature

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Obituary by Sander von Leopold Müller , Rock Mechanics, Volume 13, 1980, pp. 1-3
  2. ↑ Sanderite , Mindat
personal data
SURNAME Sander, Bruno
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Santer, Anton (pseudonym); Sander, Hermann Max Bruno
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian geologist and writer
DATE OF BIRTH February 23, 1884
PLACE OF BIRTH innsbruck
DATE OF DEATH 5th September 1979
Place of death innsbruck