Carl Hintze

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Carl Hintze (left)

Carl Adolf Ferdinand Hintze (born August 17, 1851 in Breslau ; † December 28, 1916 there ) was a German mineralogist and crystallographer .

Life

Father Carl was an engraver in Breslau. Son Carl Adolf Ferdinand attended the Maria-Magdalenen-Gymnasium in Breslau until he passed his matriculation examination in 1868 under the rectorate of Karl Schönborn. In the same year he began his university studies in Breslau , which he continued in Bonn and Berlin . In 1872 he went to the newly founded University of Strasbourg as an assistant , where he received his doctorate in 1873 . An eye disease and economic reasons forced him to interrupt his scientific work in 1875. He used his knowledge in the mineral trade, first in Strasbourg, then in Bonn. From 1880 he was scientific director of the Krantzschen Rheinische Mineralien-Kontor there. In addition to his job, he devoted himself to chemical and mineralogical studies.

August Kekulé , the great chemist, who worked in Bonn from 1867 to 1896, helped Hintze through persistent advocacy to his habilitation , which took place in 1884. By combining science and practice, Hintze became one of the best mineral experts. After working as a lecturer in Bonn for two years, he followed a call to Breslau in 1886. Here, in his hometown, he was appointed full professor in 1892 as the successor to his teacher Ferdinand von Roemer and later also director of the mineralogical institute of the university and the TH Breslau .

Services

Hintze's work was mainly devoted to chemical studies of organic compounds and minerals. Hintze's life's work was the establishment and publication of the "Handbuch der Mineralogie", a basic reference work (called "Der Hintze"). In 30 years of intensive and critical work, he created a reference work that is still valid today, an indispensable aid in mineralogical science.

This work created by him was continued by others and continued to appear with revised new editions and supplementary volumes.

Honors

A new mineral described by PJ Dunn, DR Peacor and BD Sturman in 1979 was named Carlhintzeit in honor of Hintze .

literature

Web links

Wikisource: Carl Hintze  - Sources and full texts

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Carlhintzeite , In: John W. Anthony, Richard A. Bideaux, Kenneth W. Bladh, Monte C. Nichols (Eds.): Handbook of Mineralogy, Mineralogical Society of America , 2001 ( PDF 91.5 kB )
personal data
SURNAME Hintze, Carl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hintze, Carl Adolf Ferdinand (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German mineralogist and crystallographer
DATE OF BIRTH 17th August 1851
PLACE OF BIRTH Wroclaw
DATE OF DEATH December 28, 1916
Place of death Wroclaw