Carl Friedrich Jacob Zincken

Carl Friedrich Jacob Zincken (born July 19, 1814 in Blankenburg , † February 4, 1894 in Leipzig ) was a German metallurgist. He was foreman in Anhalt-Bernburg (Mägdesprung and Bernburg) until 1858, then civil engineer in Halle (Saale) . and Leipzig. Basic work on the lignite made him as famous as his discovery of a tertiary horseshoe crab ( Tachypleus decheni Z.) and the name of the Minerals Kainit .

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Zincken was the first child from the marriage of the Brunswick mountain auditor and later Anhalt Oberbergrats Johann Ludwig Carl Zincken with the pastor's daughter Auguste Friederike Wilhelmine Schleiter from Lauterberg in the Harz Mountains . At his baptism on August 9, 1814 in Blankenburg, the following were present as sponsors:

• Secret Finance Council of the Prussian King , Israel Jacobson
• Grandfather Pastor Schleiter from Lauterberg
• Grandmother Councilor Zincken from Berlin
• Great-grandfather Captain Harten from Wedderstedt.

The family moved to Mägdesprung , where the father took up his position on January 1, 1821 as director of the Anhalt-Bernburg mining and steel works.

Carl Zincken graduated from the Carolinum Bernburg high school in order to then study at the Collegium Carolinum in Braunschweig . Returning to Mägdesprung, he received an apprenticeship as an ironworker under the strict supervision of his father . In 1835 he was appointed ironworks clerk by the student and in 1840 he was made foreman. In the same year the Natural Science Association of the Harz accepted him as a member. He constructed a 4 HP balancing steam engine for use in distilleries. In 1841 he got a business trip to Wasseralfingen to learn about smelting and refining with blast furnace gases with Adolf von Faber du Faur ( Bunsen analyzed blast furnace gases in 1837/38 with reference to possible uses; Faber du Faur undertook his first practical experiments). On his return, he took over the construction management for a gas flame oven , a puddle oven and a tongs .

In 1843 Zincken moved to Bernburg, where he took over the management of the iron foundry founded in 1839. In the revolutionary turmoil of 1848–1849 , father and son Zincken were the target of defamation and violent accusations. Zincken jun. thereupon demanded the deputy von Gloß for pistols because he had publicly insulted him and his father, but the duel did not take place . In 1850, the state parliament determined that Zincken jun. was wrongly accused. In 1854 he took over the management of the Mägdesprung mechanical engineering company. In 1858 he was "dismissed from the ducal state service by the highest resolution at his most insubordinate request while retaining his title."

From now on he worked as a civil engineer. After a short, hapless interlude at the ducal iron foundry and machine factory in Köthen, he went to Halle / S. and finally in 1871 to Leipzig.

Zincken was apparently a consultant for lignite companies. He drove to central German lignite mines , worked in the archives of the mining authorities and published articles and lectures. His books summarized the knowledge of fossil fuels of his time . Zincken was also paleontologically educated and collected fossils. He succeeded in finding a tertiary horseshoe crab and discovering several tertiary mollusks . He dealt with the composition of the salts that occurred in the first potash mines near Staßfurt and named a new mineral as kainite .

In 1853 he became a member of the Natural Science Association for Saxony a . Thuringia and took an active part in club life in Halle . In Leipzig he published after 1880, presumably inspired by family connections, mainly in a Viennese journal. Zincken died unmarried in Leipzig in 1894. The grave site no longer exists.

There is no necrology in the specialist journals. A brief note of his demise appeared in the Journal of Practical Geology in 1894 on page 112.

In the literature (for example in the Catalog of Scientific Papers , London) there was repeated confusion between the authors JCL Zincken (Zincken sen.) And CF Zincken (Zincken jun.), Caused by missing or incorrect information on first names. Since members of the Zincken clan have also published, there is a high risk of confusion with abbreviated names.

In his honor Oswald Heer named the Triassic insect Chauliodites zinkeni HEER, 1864, which Carl Zincken had found in the red sandstone of Gödewitz near Salzmünde .

Publications

• Try hot, forced air . In: Bergwerksfreund . tape 10 , 1840, p. 145-151 .
• Notes on the results of the cupola furnace operation with heated air on the ironworks under the Mägdesprung . In: Bergwerksfreund . tape 3 , 1841, p. 145-151 .
• The Scottish turbine on the Fürst Victor near Neudorf am Vorharz . In: Berg- u. hüttenm. Current volume 14 , 1855, p. 50 .
• Metallurgical notes . In: Berg- u. smelters. Current volume 14 , 1855, p. 177-178 .
• Via the lignite press on the Theodor mine near Ammendorf . In: Dinglers Polytechn. Journ. tape 155 , 1860, pp. 5-7 .
• About the luminosity of the distillation products of brown coal etc. In: Dinglers Polytechn. Journ. tape 155 , 1860, pp. 128-139 .
• About distillation products of lignite . In: ref. Currently, Nat. 1861.
• The human skull of Teuchers . In: ref. Currently, Nat. tape 18 , 1861, p. 387 .
• The deposit of the Weißenfels brown coal flora . In: Currently, Nat. tape 18 , 1861, p. 444-445 .
• Limulus Decheni from the brown coal sandstone near Teuchern . In: Currently, Nat. tape 19 , 1862, pp. 329-331 .
• About some mineral occurrences . In: Currently, Nat. tape 19 , 1862, pp. 211 .
• Investigations into the luminosity of the products of the Gerstewitz photogen and paraffin factory . In: Currently, Nat. tape 22 , 1863, p. 341-350 .
• Notes on the occurrence of Fichtelite in the high moors on the Wurmberg . In: Currently, Nat. tape 21 , 1863, p. 395 .
• About the glauconitic sand clay from Helmstedt . In: Currently, Nat. tape 21 , 1863, p. 396 .
• The Latdorf lignite warehouse not far from Bernburg . In: Currently, Nat. tape 21 , 1863, p. 530-531 .
• List of the plants occurring in the Selkethale . In: Currently, Nat. tape 22 , 1863, p. 37-50 .
• The brown coal . 1865.
• About Kainit from Leopoldshall . In: N.Jb.Min., Geol. U. Pal. 310 . 1865.
• About a new salt from Leopoldshall near Staßfurt and its composition . In: Berg- u. smelters. Current volume 24 , 1865, pp. 79-80, 288 .
• About the composition of the kainite from Leopoldshall near Staßfurt . In: Chem. Zentralblatt . tape 11 , 1866, pp. 223 .
• About the plant remains found in the lying area of ​​the lignite warehouse near Bornstädt near Eisleben . In: N.Jb.Min., Geol. U. Pal. 1867, p. 82-83 .
• About an extensive rock salt crystal and the occurrence of hematite and pyrite in the carnallite of Leopoldshall . In: N.Jb.Min., Geol. U. Pal. 1867, p. 840-841 .
• Information about the Lower Oligocene Petrefacts found in the new shaft near Löderburg not far from Staßfurt . In: N.Jb.Min., Geol. U. Pal. 1867, p. 345-346 .
• Compilation of the names of the sites from coal in the chalk to the Rotliegend inclusive . In: Currently, Nat. tape 30 , 1867, p. 201-207 .
• The physiography of brown coal . Hanover 1867.
• Drilling attempt on hard coal near Halle . In: Currently, Nat. tape 34 , 1869, pp. 312-315 .
• Additions to the physiography of brown coal . Hall 1871.
• Astrakanite from Staßfurt . In: Berg- u. smelters. Current volume 30 , 1871, p. 267 .
• Astrakanite from Staßfurt . In: ref. Currently, Nat. tape 38 , 1871, p. 62-63 .
• Astrakanite from Staßfurt . In: N.Jb.Min. 1871, p. 883-884 .
• The geologically determined coal deposits excluding the coal formation, compiled according to the relative age . Hanover 1875.
• Additions to the physiography of brown coal . Leipzig 1878.
• Advances in the geology of tertiary coal . Leipzig 1878.
• Geognostic conditions of the brown coal deposits occurring in the district of the mining authority in Prague . In: Berg- u. smelters. Current volume 89 , 1878, pp. 100-105 .
• The geologically determined coal deposits of the Jura, the Triassic, the Dyas, the Carboniferous, the Devonian and the Silurian are listed according to their relative age . In: Berg- u. smelters. Edition 1878, p. 267, 274 (additions 1879, 264).
• The brown coal . In: hatchet. z. Wiener Abendpost . tape 195/196 , 1878, pp. 777-778, 782-783 .
• Aphorisms about fossil coals . In: Berg- u. smelters. Current volume 61 , 1879.
• The Dux coal works in Bohemia .-- Aphorisms on fossil coals. In: Berg- u. hüttenm. Current volume 74 , 1879.
• The mineral treasures of European Russia . In: Berg- u. smelters. Ztg. 49 ff. 1880, p. 474 .
• Gedanit . In: Berg- u. smelters. Current volume 73 , 1880.
• Aphorisms about fossil coals . In: Berg- u. smelters. Edition 1881, p. 229-317 .
• Reinsch's investigations into the paleophytological components of carbon, Dyas and Keuper coal . In: Berg- u. smelters. Edition 1881, p. 330 .
• The copper slate mine near Rottleberode am Harz . Leipzig 1882.
• Alleged oil discovery on the Neu-Salza saltworks . In: Berg- u. smelters. Current volume 66 , 1882.
• Aphorisms about fossil coals . In: Berg- u. smelters. Ed. 1882, p. 131-238 .
• The deposits of fossil coals and hydrocarbons . tape 3 . Leipzig 1883.
• Aphorisms about fossil coals . In: Österr. Currently BH-essence . tape 31 , 1883, p. 89-90 .
• The physical conditions according to which coal formation after Newberry in New York took place . In: Österr. Currently BH-essence . tape 31 , 1883, p. 417-420 .
• The geological horizons of fossil coals . Leipzig 1883.
• Microscopic examination of the Mansfeld copper slate . In: Österr. Currently BH-essence . tape 77 , 1883.
• Le gisement des charbons et des hydrocarbures fossils . In: Revue univ. D. mines . tape 27 , no. 2 , 1883.
• Amber in Austria-Hungary and Romania . In: Österr. Currently BH-essence . tape 32 , 1884, p. 171-172, 191-192 .
• Aphorisms about fossil coals and hydrocarbons . In: Österr.Zt.BH-Wesen . tape 32 , 1884, p. 745-746 .
• The deposits of fossil hydrocarbons of Africa . In: Zt. Oberschles. Mountain u. hüttenm. Ver. 4 . 1884, p. 1 .
• The occurrence of fossil hydrocarbons in Sweden and Norway . In: Österr.Zt.BH-Wesen . tape 33 , 1885, p. 263-264 .
• The origin of bitumen according to Peckham . In: Österr. Currently BH-essence . tape 33 , 1885, p. 430-432, 439-440, 462-464, 476-479, 495-497, 512-514, 525-528 .
• The deposits of petroleum, asphalt, hydrocarbon gases, bituminous slate, hard coal etc. in America . In: Österr. Currently BH-essence . tape 34 , 1886, p. 51-53, 73-76, 88-92, 109-111, 125-129, 141-144, 175-178 .
• The deposits of petroleum and asphalt in California . In: Österr. Currently BH-essence . tape 35 , 1887, pp. 2-7 .
• America's natural gas . In: Österr. Currently BH-essence . tape 35 , 1887, pp. 215, 229 .
• The Cannelkohle . In: Österr. Currently BH-essence . tape 35 , 1887, pp. 351-355, 379-382, 387-390, 402-403, 423-424, 546, 563-565, 575-577, 586-588, 596-600, 611-614 .
• The Cannelkohle . In: Österr. Currently BH-essence . tape 36 , 1888, pp. 139–142, 152–155, 183–184, 194–197, 211–212, 221–223, 233, 398–401, 414–415, 430–431, 443–445, 457–460, 470–473, 484-486, 495-498, 546 .
• The occurrence of fossil hydrocarbons in Spain . In: Österr. Currently BH-essence . tape 37 , 1889, p. 181-182 .
• The occurrence of natural hydrocarbon and other natural gases . In: Leopoldina . tape 27 . Halle 1891, p. 86-92, 100-106, 137-144, 150-155 .
• Overview of the minerals of Staßfurt . In: Berg- u. smelters. Current volume 39 , 1893.

Lectures

• About the results of using the blast furnace gases for puddling and welding in Wasseralfingen . In: Ber. natural science Ver.d. Harzes, Blankenburg . August 11, 1841.
• About cast steel from Freital-Döhlen and the construction of the Atlantic cable England-USA . In: Corr.-Blatt in Zt.ges.Nat. April 23, 1859.
• About the properties of tungsten steel . In: Abh. Naturf.Ges. to hall . tape 5 , 1860.
• The specific weight of earthy and woody brown coals . In: Corr.-Blatt in Zt.ges.Nat. tape 16 , 1860, pp. 513 .
• About natural self-printing with lead plates . In: Corr.-Blatt in Zt.ges.Nat. November 14, 1860.
• About density determination of coal . In: Corr.-Blatt in Zt.ges.Nat. December 5, 1860.
• Via the pseudoscope . In: Corr.-Blatt in Zt.ges.Nat. January 30, 1861.
• About the properties of carbon black from the Weißenfelser area and the Wetterau . In: Corr.-Blatt in Zt.ges.Nat. March 13, 1861.
• The lignite from Riestädt . In: Currently, Nat. 1861, p. 391 .
• About Bavarian pitch coal . In: Corr.-Blatt in Zt.ges.Nat. December 4, 1861.
• Vanilla crystals from vanilla pods . In: Corr.-Blatt in Zt.ges.Nat. December 4, 1861.
• About the metatarsus of a horse and the upper jaw of a new, indeterminable large rodent . In: Corr.-Blatt in Zt.ges.Nat. December 11, 1861.
• About a peculiar silk thread . In: Currently, Nat. tape 18 , 1861, p. 391 .
• A tea plant and anodonta lignitum from Ettersleben . In: Corr.-Blatt in Zt.ges.Nat. January 29, 1862.
• Pectunculus pulviatus from the sand of Werkerhagen, slagy yellow iron stone with manganese ores from Immenhausen and petrified asbestos-like wood from the Tieschütz open-cast lignite mine . In: Corr.-Blatt in Zt.ges.Nat. February 13, 1862.
• Bog coal and lignite from Schwittersdorf near Eisleben . In: Corr.-Blatt in Zt.ges.Nat. February 26, 1862.
• About Limulus Decheni . In: Corr.-Blatt in Zt.ges.Nat. May 7, 1862.
• A nautilus with mother-of-pearl from the marine sand of Latdorf . In: Corr.-Blatt in Zt.ges.Nat. January 15, 1862.
• About Limulus and blue rock salt with cubic incluses from Staßfurt . In: Corr.-Blatt in Zt.ges.Nat. May 21, 1862.
• Strange anhydrite crystals from Staßfurt . In: Corr.-Blatt in Zt.ges.Nat. July 16, 1862.
• Luster coal with pyroretin from Leitmeritz . In: Corr.-Blatt in Zt.ges.Nat. November 5, 1862.
• About plastic representations of prehistoric animals in England . In: Corr.-Blatt in Zt.ges.Nat. November 12, 1862.
• Electroscopic investigations on fossil resins and coals . In: Corr.-Blatt in Zt.ges.Nat. November 19, 1862.
• Fossils from the Tertiary from Werkershagen, Tieschütz, Schwittersdorf . In: Corr.-Blatt in Zt.ges.Nat. 1862, p. 211 .
• About an article in the Cölner Zeitung about spectral analysis . In: Corr.-Blatt in Zt.ges.Nat. January 7, 1863.
• About leaded sheet iron from Karlsbad and Scirpus mucronatus from Bernburg . In: Corr.-Blatt in Zt.ges.Nat. January 21, 1863.
• About lignite from Latdorf and Neugattersleben . In: Corr.-Blatt in Zt.ges.Nat. February 18, 1863.
• About Wealdenkohle . In: Corr.-Blatt in Zt.ges.Nat. March 25, 1863.
• About brown coal from the Westerwald . In: Corr.-Blatt in Zt.ges.Nat. May 20, 1863.
• About Leopoldit von Leopoldshall as well as the storage conditions and fossils from Latdorf . In: Corr.-Blatt in Zt.ges.Nat. October 28, 1863.
• About the preparation of the Herculanum and Pompeii inscriptions . In: Corr.-Blatt in Zt.ges.Nat. December 9, 1863.
• Tertiary brown iron stone with cardium as diluvial pebbles, found by Würzler near Bernburg . In: Corr.-Blatt in Zt.ges.Nat. January 13, 1864.
• The history of lignite tar . In: Corr.-Blatt in Zt.ges.Nat. January 27, 1864.
• Leopoldit von Staßfurt . In: Corr.-Blatt in Zt.ges.Nat. February 3, 1864.
• Over coal from Japan, Canada and Transylvania and silicified wood from Sardinia . In: Corr.-Blatt in Zt.ges.Nat. February 17, 1864.
• Walchowite from Cretan coal in Moravia . In: Corr.-Blatt in Zt.ges.Nat. March 16, 1864.
• Via rotary core drilling with a diamond crown . In: Corr.-Blatt in Zt.ges.Nat. March 16, 1864.
• About Palaeolithic finds in France, Spain, Italy . In: Corr.-Blatt in Zt.ges.Nat. March 16, 1864.
• Model of a lignite mine made of cardboard . In: Corr.-Blatt in Zt.ges.Nat. April 21, 1864.
• Fossils from the Judenkäfer sand pit in Bernburg, found by Würzler . In: Corr.-Blatt in Zt.ges.Nat. May 4, 1864.
• About African gazelle leather . In: Corr.-Blatt in Zt.ges.Nat. May 4, 1864.
• About magnetic experiments with cast iron tubes . In: Corr.-Blatt in Zt.ges.Nat. June 29, 1864.
• About rock salt octahedron from Staßfurt . In: Corr.-Blatt in Zt.ges.Nat. August 3, 1864.
• Posidonomya from the red sandstone from Salzmünde-Fienstedt and insect wings from Gödewitz b. Salzmünde . In: Corr.-Blatt in Zt.ges.Nat. October 12, 1864. ( Archives )
• Coal from Switzerland . In: Corr.-Blatt in Zt.ges.Nat. October 19, 1864.
• About aluminum hydrate from Ireland, the discovery of bauxite, aluminum bronze . In: Corr.-Blatt in Zt.ges.Nat. December 7, 1864.
• Coal from Waldenburg . In: Corr.-Blatt in Zt.ges.Nat. December 14, 1864.
• Oolites from the red sandstone from Bernburg . In: Corr.-Blatt in Zt.ges.Nat. December 21, 1864.
• Quaternary Rhinocerus from Teuchern . In: Corr.-Blatt in Zt.ges.Nat. June 23, 1869.
• Coals from Tyrol and Bavaria . In: Corr.-Blatt in Zt.ges.Nat. November 3, 1869.
• About illustrations made by albertotype . In: Corr.-Blatt in Zt.ges.Nat. January 22, 1870.
• The brown coal . Leipzig 1878.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Anhalt-Bernburg. Weekly Advertisements p. 267, no. 41 v. May 22, 1858
2. ↑ open communication by M. Freundel, Köthen