Ernst Engraver
Ernst Stecher (born September 15, 1861 in Freiberg , † June 15, 1935 in Berggießhübel ) was a Saxon teacher and geologist .
Life
Ernst Stecher, who has a doctorate, was a teacher and geologist in Chemnitz , where he also worked as a high school professor. Since 1880 he was a member of the Alania Leipzig gymnastics club .
Services
Ernst Stecher was the first to systematically research and describe the porphyry spheres (or rhyolite spheres ) found in the Chemnitz region as volcanic bombs . The main object of his investigations was the quartz porphyry Pechstein body of the Erzgebirge basin , which was the first ignimbrite to be made public in Central Europe in 1971 .
Works
- Contact phenomena on Scottish olivine diabases 1887, (Inaugural dissertation from Min. Petrogr. Mitth. Edited by Tschermak . Vol. IX. 145. Leipzig.)
- The porphyry bombs of Chemnitz and its surroundings. 1916, 1925, 1928, 1931, Ber. natural Ges. Chemnitz
- About the spread of the Chemnitz porphyry bombs. 1920, Ber. natural Ges. Chemnitz
- Palaeovolcanic bombs 1st edition Chemnitz, publisher of naturwiss. Ges., 1931. with 11 collotype plates
Web links
- Everything about the phenomenon of porphyry spheres on porphyrkugel.de , accessed on May 16, 2011
- Museum für Naturkunde Petrographische Sammlung Chemnitz , accessed on May 16, 2011
Individual evidence
- ↑ The gymnastics club. 52nd year, 1935, p. 152.
- ↑ Dissertation “On the minerogenetic significance of the rock glasses of the magmatism of the subsequence stage in the Saxon region”, Frieder Jentsch, 1978
- ↑ Dipl. Min. Dr. rer. nat. Dr. sc. phil. Frieder Jentsch: "The phenomenon of porphyry spheres"
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| SURNAME | Engraver, Ernst |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German teacher and geologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 15, 1861 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Freiberg |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 15, 1935 |
| Place of death | Berggießhübel |