Emanuel Christa (geologist)

Emanuel Christa (born March 15, 1874 in Kaufbeuren ; † February 27, 1948 in Hammer am Schliersee ) was a German geologist and mineralogist. He was professor for mineralogy and crystallography at the University of Erlangen .

Life

Emanuel Christa first studied law, then mineralogy. In 1893 he became a member of the Corps Germania Munich . After graduating, he became a Dr. phil. PhD. In 1922 he completed his habilitation in Würzburg. He was a private lecturer there and, from 1934, an associate professor in Erlangen. He died in an accident on the Schliersee.

He made a geological map of the upper Zemmgrund (around the Berliner Hütte in the Zillertal Alps ), on which he worked for 10 years.

As a mountaineer, he was the first to climb the tower named after him in the Wilder Kaiser in 1901 . He was doing research in Persia.

Fonts

The Greiner-Schwarzenstein region of the Zillertal Alps from a geological and petrographic perspective. In: Publications of the Museum Ferdinandeum, year 1933, issue 15, pp. 1–114
The area of the Upper Zemmgrund in the Zillertal Alps. Jb. Geol. D. BA Vienna, no. 3 a. 4, 1931, pp. 533-635.
The Schwanberg in the Steigerwald. A geological study with a geological map, M. 1: 12500, Verlag von Piloty & Loehle, Munich 1925
Route guide through the Heiterwand area, 1914

literature

Franz Rost, obituary in New Yearbook for Mineralogy, 1950

Web links

Biography as a climber
Literature by and about Emanuel Christa in the catalog of the German National Library

References and comments

↑ Brief biography in Bruno von Freyberg : The geological literature on Northeast Bavaria (1476–1965) Part II: Biographical Author Register, Geologica Bavarica 71, Bavarian Geological State Office 1974
↑ Hans Herpich and Hans Schmuck: 100 Years Corps Germania in Munich, Festschrift on November 14, 1963 , Ingolstadt 1963, p. 67, (No. 179 of the Germania Corps List 1863–1963)

personal data
SURNAME	Christa, Emanuel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German geologist and mineralogist
DATE OF BIRTH	March 15, 1874
PLACE OF BIRTH	Kaufbeuren
DATE OF DEATH	February 27, 1948
Place of death	Hammer am Schliersee

[1] Brief biography in Bruno von Freyberg : The geological literature on Northeast Bavaria (1476–1965) Part II: Biographical Author Register, Geologica Bavarica 71, Bavarian Geological State Office 1974

[CLdG-2] Hans Herpich and Hans Schmuck: 100 Years Corps Germania in Munich, Festschrift on November 14, 1963 , Ingolstadt 1963, p. 67, (No. 179 of the Germania Corps List 1863–1963)