Heinrich Huttenlocher
Heinrich Ferdinand Huttenlocher (born April 10, 1890 in Biel , † December 4, 1954 in Muri near Bern ) was a Swiss geologist and mineralogist .
Life
Heinrich Huttenlocher was born as the son of the German sculptor Ferdinand Huttenlocher . He studied geology and mineralogy at the universities of Bern and Munich . During his studies he became a member of the Christian student associations Zähringia Bernensis and Munich Wingolf . In 1926 he married his cousin Julia Huttenlocher. The marriage had three children.
From 1928 Heinrich Huttenlocher taught mineral deposits at the University of Bern. In 1936 he was appointed associate professor and headed the Mineralogical- Petrographic Institute as director . In 1944 he was appointed full professor. One focus of his work was the exploration of the local alpine ore deposits , a topic that became increasingly important in Switzerland during the Second World War . In further research he examined the metamorphosis of the alpine rocks . A he discovered Entmischungserscheinung , a gap in a mixed batch of the feldspars belonging plagioclase , named after him ( Huttenlocher segregation or Huttenlocher-gap ).
Fonts (in selection)
- Heinrich Huttenlocher: The ore deposit zones of the Western Alps. Contributions to the geology of Switzerland, geotechnical series, smaller communications. Kümmerly & Frey, Bern 1934
- Heinrich Huttenlocher and Paul Ramdohr : Mineral and ore deposit studies . Verlag de Gruyter, Berlin 1954, ISBN 3-110-06219-4
literature
- Theodor Hügi: Huttenlocher, Heinrich. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 10, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1974, ISBN 3-428-00191-5 , p. 102 f. ( Digitized version ).
- German Biographical Encyclopedia . KG Saur Verlag, Munich 1997, Volume 5, p. 237
- JC Poggendorff - Biographical-literary concise dictionary of the exact natural sciences . Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1958, Volume VIIa, Part 2, p. 587
- Swiss mineralogical and petrographic notices . Volume 34, 1954, pp. 193-202, obituary by Theodor Hügi
Web links
- Literature by and about Heinrich Huttenlocher in the catalog of the German National Library
Individual evidence
- ↑ August Winkler: Vademekum Wingolfitikum , Wingolfsverlag, Wolfratshausen 1925, p. 222.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Huttenlocher, Heinrich |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Huttenlocher, Heinrich Ferdinand (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swiss geologist and mineralogist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 10, 1890 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Biel |
| DATE OF DEATH | 4th December 1954 |
| Place of death | Muri near Bern |