Friedrich Leutwein
Friedrich Leutwein (born August 9, 1911 in Berlin , † December 28, 1974 in Bischwiller ) was a German mineralogist.
Life
Friedrich Leutwein was the grandson of the military Theodor Leutwein . His maternal grandfather was the orientalist Eduard Sachau .
Leutwein graduated from high school in Crossen an der Oder in 1929 and then studied chemistry, physics, mineralogy and geology at the universities of Freiburg and Gießen . In 1936 he did his doctorate with Hans Schneiderhöhn in Freiburg.
In 1939 he went to Freiberg , where he initially worked as a research assistant at the Oberbergamt. From 1943 he headed the research laboratory of the Freiberg mountain district. In 1946 he completed his habilitation.
In 1947 he became a full professor for mineralogy, petrography and geochemistry at the Bergakademie Freiberg . From 1949 to 1953 he was rector of the Bergakademie.
From 1950 to 1954 he was a member of the Central Committee of the SED . In 1956 he was awarded the National Prize of the GDR III. In 1957 he became a member of the German Academy of Sciences in Berlin . Since 1956 he was a member of the Saxon Academy of Sciences .
In 1958 he was on business in Hamburg , where he decided not to return to the GDR. In 1959 he became an honorary professor at the University of Hamburg , and a year later he accepted a professorship at the Center National de la Recherche Scientifique in Nancy .
Friedrich Leutwein died in Bischwiller in 1974. He was buried in Nancy.
Publications (selection)
- The rocks of the area between the Untermünster valley and the Culm strip of Badenweiler in the southern Black Forest (dissertation, 1936)
- Geochemical investigations on alum and silica slates from Thuringia with special consideration of the occurrence of vanadium and molybdenum (habilitation thesis, submitted 1940)
- On the application of spectrochemistry in the metallurgy and mining industry (1953)
- Geochemistry and Mineral Resources (1955)
- Geochemical Investigations on Paleozoic and Mesozoic Coals in Central and Eastern Germany (1956)
- Kristallografija (Moscow, 1967)
literature
- Friedrich Leutwein † . In: Advances in Mineralogy . 53 (1975), No. 1, pp. 1-10
- Karl-Richard Mehnert: Leutwein, Friedrich. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 14, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1985, ISBN 3-428-00195-8 , p. 388 f. ( Digitized version ).
- Friedrich Leutwein (1911–1974). Honorary colloquium at the Bergakademie Freiberg, the Faculty of Geosciences and the Institute for Mineralogy, Geochemistry and Depository Studies on December 6, 1991 in Freiberg .
- Hans Jürgen Rösler : The life and the scientific work of Friedrich Leutwein. A throwback to his 80th birthday . Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1992, ISBN 3-05-501518-5
- Werner Lauterbach : Friedrich Leutwein (1911–1974) . In: Messages from the Freiberg Antiquities Association . 102 (2009), pp. 78-79
- Martin Guntau : Leutwein, Friedrich . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 1. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .
Web links
- Literature by and about Friedrich Leutwein in the catalog of the German National Library
- Literature by and about Friedrich Leutwein in the Saxon Bibliography
Individual evidence
- ↑ High awards for members of the Bergakademie Freiberg . In: Bergakademie . 1956/11, pp. 535-536
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Leutwein, Friedrich |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German mineralogist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 9, 1911 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Berlin |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 28, 1974 |
| Place of death | Bischwiller |