Christian Samuel Weiss

Christian Samuel Weiss (born February 26, 1780 in Leipzig , † October 1, 1856 near Eger (Bohemia) ) was a German mineralogist. As the founder of geometric crystallography, he set up the law of rationality.

Life

Christian Samuel Weiss was a son of the Leipzig theologian Christian Samuel Weiss (1738–1805) and his wife Christiana Johanna Schmidt (* 1748).

He studied at the University of Leipzig and the Bergakademie Freiberg . There he joined the Erzgebirge Landsmannschaft in 1802 , which became the Corps Montania in 1821 . Habilitated in Leipzig in 1803 , he was appointed to the chair of physics there in 1808 . In 1810 he received a professorship for mineralogy at the new Friedrich Wilhelms University in Berlin . Here he developed the mathematical branch of mineralogy according to a very natural method. He made them the basis of the crystal structure . For this he defined crystal systems ; the first work, read out on December 15, 1815 in the Berlin Academy, in this direction was about the natural departments of the crystallization systems (printed in 1818 see Groth).

Christian Samuel Weiss died on a trip to Eger in Bohemia . The geologist and phytopalaeontologist Christian Ernst Weiß was a nephew.

Honors

Christian Samuel Weiss; Relief above the entrance to the Natural History Museum in Berlin-Mitte

Corresponding member (1803) and external member (1808) of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences
Full member of the Royal Prussian Academy of Sciences (1815)
Elected to the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina (1818)
In 1853 he was accepted into the Order Pour le Mérite for Science and the Arts .

literature

Carl Schiffner : From the life of old Freiberg mountain students. Volume 1, Mauckisch, Freiberg 1935, pp. 24-25.
Paul Heinrich von Groth : Development history of the mineralogical sciences. Berlin 1926, p. 66
Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius : Speech on Christian Samuel Weiß, held in the public session of the Royal Bavarian Academy of Sciences on November 28, 1856. Munich 1856. doi : 10.3931 / e-rara-77152

Web links

Commons : Christian Samuel Weiss - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

↑ Christian Samuel Weiss the Elder. Ä.
^ Corps Montania Freiberg / Sachsen , in: Chronik der Saxo-Montania zu Freiberg and Dresden in Aachen , Part I, pp. 37–40, No. 17
^ Member entry by Christian Samuel Weiß (with picture) at the Bavarian Academy of Sciences , accessed on February 9, 2016.
^ Member entry by Christian Samuel Weiss at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on February 9, 2016.

personal data
SURNAME	Weiss, Christian Samuel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German mineralogist and crystallographer
DATE OF BIRTH	February 26, 1780
PLACE OF BIRTH	Leipzig
DATE OF DEATH	October 1, 1856
Place of death	at Eger

[1] Christian Samuel Weiss the Elder. Ä.

[2] Corps Montania Freiberg / Sachsen , in: Chronik der Saxo-Montania zu Freiberg and Dresden in Aachen , Part I, pp. 37–40, No. 17

[3] Member entry by Christian Samuel Weiß (with picture) at the Bavarian Academy of Sciences , accessed on February 9, 2016.

[4] Member entry by Christian Samuel Weiss at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on February 9, 2016.