Eugen Geinitz

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Eugen Geinitz
Geinitzstein at Geinitzort in the Stoltera near Warnemünde

Franz Eugen Geinitz (born February 15, 1854 in Dresden , † March 9, 1925 in Rostock ) was a German geologist and mineralogist .

Life

Eugen Geinitz, son of the geologist Hanns Bruno Geinitz , studied geology and mineralogy as well as philosophy at the Technical University of Dresden and in Leipzig. He was awarded a Dr. phil. doctorate and habilitation in Göttingen in 1877. Between 1876 and 1878 Geinitz worked as a private lecturer in Göttingen and Heidelberg. On October 1, 1878, he received his appointment to the chair for mineralogy and geology at the University of Rostock . In 1881 he was appointed director of the Mineralogical-Geological Institute. Geinitz worked as director of the geological state institute of the Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg-Schwerin from 1889.

Eugen Geinitz was married to Mathilde Thierfelder (* 1855), a daughter of the physician Theodor Thierfelder , professor of internal medicine at the University of Rostock. One son was the physician Hans Theodor Geinitz (* 1884), who worked in Ludwigslust and later in Hagen.

Memberships and honors

In 1881 Geinitz was elected a member of the Leopoldina .

In his memory of him, a lookout point near Usadel in southeast Mecklenburg was named as Eugen-Geinitz-Sicht in 2013 . The Geinitzort with a memorial stone for Eugen Geinitz is at the top of the Stoltera cliff on the Baltic Sea.

Works

The state bibliography Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania has more than 200 publications for Eugen Geinitz, including more than 70 monographs.

  • Mecklenburg's lakes, moors and rivers . Commissionsverlag Opitz & Co, Güstrow 1886.
  • Hanns Bruno Geinitz, a picture of life from the 19th century . Hall 1900.
  • Nature and cause of the ice age . Opitz, Güstrow 1905.
  • The ice age . Vieweg, Braunschweig 1906, archive
  • The storm surge of December 30, 1913 in its effect on the Mecklenburg coast . Rostock 1914.
  • Geology of Mecklenburg-Strelitz . Rostock 1915.
  • The lignite formation in Mecklenburg . Rostock 1917.
  • The Diluvium of Germany . Swiss beard, Stuttgart 1920.
  • Geology of Mecklenburg . 2 volumes. 1922.
  • The earthquake in Iquique on May 9, 1878 and the earthquake flood caused by it in the Great Ocean , Nova Acta Leopoldina, Volume 40, No. 9, Halle 1878, Archives
  • Geological Guide through Mecklenburg, 1899 , Borntraeger, Geological Guide Collection 2, 1899
  • Contribution to the geology of Mecklenburg IV: The bedloads of crystalline mass rocks in the Mecklenburg Diluvium , Neubrandenburg 1882, archive
  • The development of the Mecklenburg geology. Speech to celebrate February 28, 1904 , Güstrow, printed by C. Michaal's Ratsbuchdruckerei, 1904, archive

Web links

Commons : Eugen Geinitz  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Gustav Willgeroth : The Mecklenburg doctors from the oldest times to the present. Schwerin 1929, pp. 137 / 260-261.
personal data
SURNAME Geinitz, Eugene
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Geinitz, Franz Eugen (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German geologist and mineralogist
DATE OF BIRTH February 15, 1854
PLACE OF BIRTH Dresden
DATE OF DEATH March 9, 1925
Place of death Rostock