Henri Buttgenbach

Henri Jean Francois Buttgenbach (born February 5, 1874 in Ensival (near Verviers ), † April 29, 1964 in Brussels , Woluwe-St.Pierre district) was a Belgian economic geologist and mineralogist.

Live and act

Henri Buttgenbach began studying mining engineering at the University of Liège , but also studied mineralogy with Giuseppe Raimondo Pio Cesàro (1849–1939) without completing a doctorate. He stayed in contact with Cesàro later and was assistant in his laboratory between trips. He first published in 1896.

Buttgenbach worked in the mining industry in Mexico, California, Florida, Sumatra, Chile and Argentina, Tunisia, Morocco, South Africa and especially in Shinkolobwe, in the Katanga province in the Congo , where he had been since 1902. He worked there from 1911 for the Union Minière du Haut Katanga . From 1921 to 1945 he was professor of geology at the University of Liège (as successor to Cesàro).

He published much work on minerals and deposits in Belgium and the Congo.

The mineral buttgenbachite , discovered in the Congo in 1925 , was named after him. He himself is the first to describe several minerals such as Cornetite (1916), Cesàrolith (1920), Fourmarierite (1924) and Thoreaulite (1933).

He was a member of the Royal Belgian Academy of Sciences and an honorary member of the Mineralogical Society of Great Britain and Ireland .

Fonts

• Les minéraux et les roches , 7th edition, Paris and Liège 1943
• Tableaux des constantes géométriques des minéraux , Liège 1918
• Les minéraux de Belgique et du Congo Belge , Paris, Dunod 1947

Web links

• The Mineralogical Record
• Obituary at the Belgian Academy of Sciences, French, pdf
• Nationaal Henri Buttgenbach , Koninklijk Museum voor Midden-Afrika

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Mineral Atlas