Gustav Angenheister (geophysicist, 1917)

Gustav Georg Gunter Angenheister (born November 8, 1917 in Apia , Samoa , † April 19, 1991 ) was a German geophysicist .

Life

Gustav Angenheister was born in the former German colony of Samoa, while his father of the same name was the head of the Samoa observatory there. He attended high school in Göttingen and passed his Abitur in 1937. With interruptions due to military service in World War II , he studied geophysics at the Georg-August University . There he received his doctorate in natural sciences under Julius Bartels' work on registration and discussion of geomagnetic pulsations in 1953 and then worked at the Office for Soil Research in Hanover . From 1957 he was full professor for applied geophysics at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich and at the same time head of the Institute for General and Applied Geophysics and the Geophysical Observatory at the University of Fürstenfeldbruck , from 1964 a full member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and from 1968 to 1971 Chairman of the German Geophysical Society . In 1983 he retired . His research areas were geomagnetism , seismics and the physical properties of rocks .

Gustav Angenheister was married to Ruth geb. Suhren.

Fonts

• Rock magnetism and paleomagnetism. Borntraeger, Berlin 1972, ISBN 3-443-22001-0 .
• History of the Samoa Observatory from 1902 to 1921 . In: H. Birett (Ed.): On the history of geophysics. Springer, Berlin 1974, ISBN 3-540-07002-8 , pp. 43-66.

literature

• Heinz Jagodzinski: Gustav Angenheister. In: Bavarian Academy of Sciences: Yearbook. 1991, ISSN  0084-6090 , pp. 226-229.
• Kürschner's German Scholars Calendar. 16th edition, 1992, ISSN  0341-8049 , p. 50.
• Heinrich C. Soffel, Helmut Vidal: History of the scientific institution “Institute for General and Applied Geophysics and Geophysical Observatory” at the University of Munich (PDF; 2.6 MB). In: H. Neunhöfer, M. Börngen, A. Junge, J. Schweitzer (eds.): On the history of geophysics in Germany. German Geophysical Society, Hamburg 1997, pp. 115–121.
• Who is who? XXIII. Edition, 1984, ISSN  0172-911X , p. 21.

Web links

• Literature by and about Gustav Angenheister in the catalog of the German National Library