Half Zantop

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Half Zantop (born April 24, 1938 in Eckernförde ; † January 27, 2001 in Etna near Hanover (New Hampshire) ) was a German-American geologist and university professor. He specialized in economic geology (economic geology).

Life

Half Zantop was the son of the printer Alfred Zantop and his wife Margarete geb. Buchenau. His parents lived in Barcelona , where he also attended school. Zantop studied geology at the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg , Washington State University and the Stanford University School of Earth Sciences . He received his PhD from Stanford in 1969.

1970 Marriage to the political scientist and Germanist Susanne Zantop b. Korsukéwitz. From 1969 to 1975 they lived in different countries in South America, Africa and Spain, where Half Zantop worked as a geologist for the mining company Kennecott Copper and the steel producer Bethlehem Steel . In 1975 Half Zantop came with his family to study at Heidelberg University for a year . In 1976 he came to Dartmouth College , where he became Associate Professor in 1982 and Full Professor of Earth Sciences in 1988 . Zantop was temporarily visiting professor at the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg .

On January 27, 2001, the Zantop couple were attacked and murdered in their home in Etna by two young people with robbery intent. The case caused quite a stir. On the campus of Dartmouth College, the Zantop Garden in front of Richardson Hall has been a reminder of the two university teachers since 2009. Parts of the collection of his grandfather Siegfried Buchenau's collection are documented in the couple's estate .

Fonts

  • Trace element distribution in manganese oxides and iron oxides from the San Francisco manganese deposit, Jalisco, Mexico. Stanford 1969 (diss.)
  • with Werner R. Gocht, Roderick G. Eggert: International mineral economics: mineral exploration, mine valuation, mineral markets, international mineral policies , Springer, Berlin 1988

literature

  • Dick Lehr, Mitchell Zuckoff: Judgment Ridge: The True Story behind the Dartmouth Murders. HarperCollins, New York 2003 ISBN 0-06-000844-X .
  • Eric Francis: The Dartmouth Murders. St. Martin's True Crime, New York 2005 ISBN 0-312-98231-3

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Leslie Sonder: Half Zantop: A Dartmouth Earth Sciences Perspective
  2. ↑ See: en: 2001 Dartmouth College murders
  3. ↑ Doppelmord: A University in Shock , Der Tagesspiegel of January 30, 2001 ; FBI takes part in an investigation in: Main-Post from February 8, 2001
  4. ↑ Avril Maddrell, James D. Sidaway: Deathscapes: Spaces for Death, Dying, Mourning and Remembrance , Ashgate Publishing, 2012, p. 190
personal data
SURNAME Zantop, Half
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Zantop, H .; Zantop, Half Al.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-American geologist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH April 24, 1938
PLACE OF BIRTH Eckernförde
DATE OF DEATH January 27, 2001
Place of death Etna near Hanover, New Hampshire