Erwin Nickel

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Erwin J. Nickel (born May 11, 1921 in Frankenstein ; † July 4, 2005 ) was a German mineralogist as well as para-scientist and paranormologist .

Life

Erwin Nickel studied chemistry and mineralogy in Breslau, Poznan and Vienna from 1939, with interruptions due to military service. In 1944 he received his doctorate in Vienna. After being a prisoner of war, he became an assistant in Heidelberg in 1947 and completed his habilitation there in 1951. After working as a private lecturer at the Mineralogy Institute of the University of Münster, he received a professorship for mineralogy and petrography at the University of Friborg in 1956 . He also became director of the Mineralogical Institute at the University of Friborg. In 1987 he retired .

Act

Nickel was involved in many commissions at the university as well as in Swiss professional societies. In the academic years 1965 to 1966 and 1982 to 1983 he was dean of the mathematics and natural science faculty. He was also the museum's interim curator between 1966 and 1973 and a member of the museum commission.

He has published over 90 papers on his research in crystallography , ore deposits , special mineralogy, petrography and volcanology . His three-volume textbook “Basic Knowledge in Mineralogy” became the standard work of training.

In particular, Nickel was involved in interdisciplinary studies, especially in Christian philosophy , and published over 80 writings on this subject. He was honorary president of the Institute for Frontier Areas of Science (IGW) of Andreas Resch in Innsbruck, member of the Austrian Scientific Societies, and several times President of Imago Mundi , an international interest group for frontier areas of science. In addition, from 1972 to 1996 he was president of Via Mundi in Munich, an interest group for transcendent science and Christian spirituality. As part of these engagements, he dealt with reincarnation , among other things ; to refute the doctrine of reincarnation, he published the text “The sense of the whole. Experiences between knowledge and belief ”.

In 1965 he became an honorary member of the Catholic student association KDSt.V. Teutonia Freiburg im Uechtland in the CV .

Fonts

  • Science at the limit of metaphysics. The Egge, Nuremberg 1947.
  • Man and his worldview: considerations from the natural philosophy. The Egge, Nuremberg 1947.
  • The physical model and metaphysical reality. Attempt at a meta-phenomenology. Reinhardt, Basel 1952.
  • The reproducibility of the so-called sensitive copper chloride crystallization. University Press, Freiburg (Switzerland) 1968.
  • Science and the fate of mankind. University Press, Freiburg (Switzerland) 1971.
  • Basic knowledge in mineralogy, a text and learning book on an elementary basis for crystal, mineral and rock science. 3 volumes. Ott, Thun 1971-1975.
  • Odenwald . Vorderer Odenwald between Darmstadt and Heidelberg . (= Collection of geological guides 65) Borntraeger, Berlin, Stuttgart 1979, 2nd edition 1985. ISBN 3-443-15024-1 .
  • The sense of it all. Universitätsverlag, Freiburg (Switzerland) 2002, ISBN 3-7278-1165-X .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ IGW - Imago Mundi ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) 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. , IGW, accessed September 14, 2009 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.igw-resch-verlag.at
  2. ^ Obituary for Erwin Nickel , Via Mundi, Mitteilungen No. 32, April 2006
personal data
SURNAME Nickel, Erwin
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Nickel, Erwin J.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German mineralogist as well as para-scientist and paranormologist
DATE OF BIRTH May 11, 1921
PLACE OF BIRTH Frankenstein
DATE OF DEATH 4th July 2005