Heinrich Credner

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Karl Friedrich Heinrich Credner (born March 13, 1809 in Waltershausen , † September 28, 1876 in Halle / Saale ) was a German geologist .

Life

Heinrich Credner studied at the Bergakademie Freiberg between 1828 and 1831 . He completed his studies at the University of Göttingen . He then toured Saxony, Bohemia and Silesia on behalf of the government of Saxe-Gotha . In 1833 he became a mountain assistant in Gotha and in 1850 a mountain ridge. He was later also appointed rail, insurance and gas director. In 1853 he was elected to the Gotha state parliament , to which he belonged until 1856. He owned and lived in the Villa at Friedrichstrasse 14 . In 1858 he followed a call to Hanover, where he was Oberbergrat in the ministry. In 1866 he was transferred to Berlin. In 1868 he became Oberbergrat in Halle / Saale. In 1863 he was elected a corresponding member of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences .

Credner first described the mineral crednerite , which was later named after him . In Flegessen he discovered posidonia slate .

His son Carl Hermann Credner (1841–1913) was professor of geology in Leipzig, his son Georg Rudolf Credner (1850–1908) geographer , geologist and rector of the University of Greifswald.

Fonts

  • Overview of the geognostic conditions in Thuringia and the Harz Mountains, accompanied by a geognostic map. Gotha 1843
  • About the Gervillien of the Triassic formation in Thuringia. New yearbook for mineralogy, geognosy, geology and petrefacts customer, year 1851, 641 - 657, plate VI, E. Schweizerbart´sche publishing house and printer, Stuttgart 1851
  • Geognostic map of the Thuringian Forest , 4 sheets, 1855
  • About the border structure between the Keuper and the Lias am Seeberg near Gotha and in Northern Germany in general. New yearbook for mineralogy, geognosy, geology and petrefacts customer, year 1860, 293 - 319, plate III, E. Schweizerbart'sche publishing house and printer, Stuttgart 1860
  • About the division of the upper Jura formation and the Wealden formation in north-western Germany. Prague 1863

literature

References

  1. ↑ Holger Krahnke: The members of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen 1751-2001 (= Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Philological-Historical Class. Volume 3, Vol. 246 = Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Mathematical-Physical Class. Episode 3, vol. 50). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2001, ISBN 3-525-82516-1 , p. 62.
  2. ↑ C. Rammelsberg (1847): About the crednerite, a manganese copper ore from Friedrichsrode in the Thuringian Forest. In: Poggendorff's annals of physics and chemistry. 74, 559-562
  3. ↑ H. Credner (1847): About the occurrence of vanadic acid copper oxide and copper-manganese ore near Friedrichrode in the Thuringian Forest. In: New yearbook for mineralogy, geognosy, geology and petrefacts. 1-7
  4. ^ Annual report of the Natural History Society in Hanover, issues 58–59

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personal data
SURNAME Credner, Heinrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Credner, Karl Friedrich Heinrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German geologist
DATE OF BIRTH March 13, 1809
PLACE OF BIRTH Waltershausen near Gotha
DATE OF DEATH September 28, 1876
Place of death Halle / Saale