Christian Herrgen
Johann Joseph Christian Herrgen (* 1765 in Mainz , † 1816 in Madrid ) was a German geologist and mineralogist and teacher at the Royal Natural History Cabinet in Madrid.
Life
Christian Herrgen studied at the University of Mainz . He wrote his dissertation in 1781, it has been preserved in the manuscript, Ex logica , in Latin. Herrgen was hired on March 28, 1791 as a professor of mineralogy at the newly founded Real Escuela de Mineralogía by Pierre-François Chabaneau . When Juan Palafox Rovira died in July 1794, the position of a collector at the Royal Natural History Cabinet in Madrid became vacant, where he was appointed by its deputy director José Clavijo y Fajardo .
In 1808 he was appointed a member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences .
Fonts
- Annales de Historia Natural , together with Joseph Louis Proust , Domingo García Fernández and Antonio José Cavanilles , 1799
- Descripcion geognóstica de las rocas que componen la parte solída del globo terrestre, extractada de varias obras alemanas de la escuela de Werner, y aumentada con observaciones hechas en la peninsula. , together with Abraham Gottlob Werner , Madrid, La Imprenta Real, 1802.
Translations
- Johann Friedrich Wilhelm Widenmann : Handbook of the oryktognostischen part of the mineralogy by Johann Friederich Wilhelm Widenmann Herzoglich Würtembergischen Bergrathe, the Society of Mining Science, the Society of Friends of Natural Science in Berlin, and the Economic Society of Leipzig, member. Crusius, Leipzig 1794; Translation: Madrid 1797–1798
literature
- Christian Herrgen y the institucionalización de la mineralogía en Madrid; Dolores Parra, Francisco Pelayo, ed .: Revista de Historia de la Medicina y de la Ciencia, 1996 ( Memento from April 14, 2013 in the web archive archive.today )
- Juan Miguel Casanova: Cristiano Herrgen. Sociedad Valenciana de Mineralogía, October 28, 2009, accessed November 27, 2011 (Spanish).
- The contactos científicos en España (3 de 3) - Cristiano Herrgen. Instituto Cervantes , accessed November 27, 2011 (Spanish).
Individual evidence
- ^ Karl Caesar von Leonhard , Johann Heinrich Kopp , Carl Ludwig Gaertner: Propaedeutik der Mineralogie , Joh. Chris. Hermannsche Buchhandlung, Frankfurt am Main, 1817 p. 291
- ^ Robert Fox, Anna Guagnini: Education, technology, and industrial performance in Europe, 1850-1939. Cambridge University Press, August 27, 1993, accessed November 27, 2011 .
- ↑ Christian Herrgen , members of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences Review - deceased members (H)
- ↑ Alexander von Humboldt : Political essay on the island of Cuba. (No longer available online.) Irene Prüfer Leske, p. 318 , archived from the original on February 3, 2012 ; Retrieved November 27, 2011 ( ISBN 978-84-8454-202-5 ). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Alexander von Humboldt: Letters from America , 1799–1804
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Herrgen, Christian |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Herrgen, Johann Joseph Christian (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German geologist and mineralogist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1765 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Mainz |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1816 |
| Place of death | Madrid |