Emil Treptow

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Carl Johann Emil Treptow (born June 20, 1854 in Danzig ; † November 20, 1935 in Freiberg ) was a German mining scientist .

Life

From 1874 he studied at the Bergakademie Freiberg , where he graduated as a mining engineer and mine separator in 1878. He then worked in Peruvian silver mines. Study trips took him through Germany, Austria and Russia. From 1885 he worked as a mining office mark separator in the Royal Saxon State Service.

In 1887 he became director of the Freiberg mountain school . In 1891 he took over the professorship for mining and mineral processing at the Bergakademie Freiberg. From 1909 to 1911 he was the rector of the Bergakademie. In 1923 he retired.

Emil Treptow was very interested in mining art and history. When the German Museum in Munich commissioned the German translation of Georgius Agricola 's De re metallica , he took on the 6th and 8th books, published in 1928. He brought together mining objects from different countries and epochs and presented them to the Freiberg collection Mining studies (also known today as the Treptow Collection ) are available.

Emil Treptow died in Freiberg in 1935.

Publications (selection)

  • About support and placement devices for brake shafts (1887)
  • Basics of mining science (total of 5 editions, first published in 1892)
  • Rules of arithmetic. Compiled for mountain school lessons (1892, digitized )
  • Mining, including quarrying and gem extraction. History of mining, occurrence and extraction of usable minerals in the most important mining districts of all countries (1900)
  • Mining and metallurgy. Shown for further circles (1900)
  • Autographs for the lectures on general and special mining, mineral processing and briquetting. Maps for the mining study trips (1901)
  • Ancient Japanese mining and smelting depicted on scrolls (1904)
  • Mining Art (1922)
  • German masterpieces of mining art (1929)

literature

  • Eberhard Wächtler : 5th Agricola Colloquium - special colloquium on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the death of Prof. Emil Treptow (1854–1935) . In: New mining technology . 16/1986/4, p. 158
  • Emil Treptow, life and work . In: The Technical University Bergakademie Freiberg and its history . German Verlag für Grundstoffindindustrie Leipzig, 1994, p. 94. ISBN 3-342-00562-9
  • Frieder Jentsch: Emil Treptow on the 150th birthday . In: Journal for friends and sponsors of the Technical University Bergakademie Freiberg . 11/2004, p. 48

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Frieder Jentsch: Emil Treptow on the 150th birthday . In the magazine for friends and sponsors of the Technical University Bergakademie Freiberg . 11/2004, p. 48
personal data
SURNAME Treptow, Emil
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Treptow, Carl Johannes Emil; Treptow, Karl Johann Emil; Treptow, Carl Johann Emil; Treptow, Karl Johannes Emil
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German mining scientist
DATE OF BIRTH June 20, 1854
PLACE OF BIRTH Danzig
DATE OF DEATH November 20, 1935
Place of death Freiberg