Giovanni Strüver

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Giovanni Strüver (born January 23, 1842 as Johannes Karl Theodor Strüver in Braunschweig , † February 21, 1915 in Rome ) was an Italian mineralogist and paleontologist of German descent .

Strüver was an assistant to Quintino Sella at the engineering school in Florence and from 1873 professor of mineralogy at the University of Rome (La Sapienza) and head of its mineralogical collection, which he collected through his own collecting activities (especially in Lazio, on Elba and in the Piedmontese Alps ) and expanded by 10,000 copies through purchases. Almost all minerals known at the time (896 of 900) and almost all Italian meteorite finds were represented in the collection.

In 1874 he was elected a corresponding member of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences . In 1900 he was accepted as a corresponding member of the Prussian Academy of Sciences .

Strüver is considered to be the first to describe the minerals sellaite and gastaldite . The latter, however, turned out to be identical to Glaucophan in later investigations .

Honors

In 1903 he became an honorary member of the Mineralogical Society of Great Britain and Ireland .

The mineral Strüverite is named after him by his student Ferruccio Zambonini (1880–1932).

Fonts

  • The fossil fish from the Keupersandstein of Coburg. In: Journal of the German Geological Society, XVI, Plate XIII, Berlin 1864, pp. 303-330

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ History of the Mineralogical Collection, University of Rome ( 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / euromin.w3sites.net
  2. ↑ Holger Krahnke: The members of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen 1751-2001 (= Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Philological-Historical Class. Volume 3, Vol. 246 = Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Mathematical-Physical Class. Episode 3, vol. 50). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2001, ISBN 3-525-82516-1 , p. 236.
  3. ^ Members of the previous academies. Johannes Karl Theodor (Giovanni) Strüver. Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities , accessed on June 22, 2015 .
  4. ↑ Mineral Atlas: Gastaldite
  5. ^ Mineralienatlas: Strüverit
personal data
SURNAME Strüver, Giovanni
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Strüver, Johannes
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian mineralogist
DATE OF BIRTH January 23, 1842
PLACE OF BIRTH Braunschweig
DATE OF DEATH February 21, 1915
Place of death Rome