Heinrich Lottner

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Heinrich Lottner (born September 9, 1828 in Berlin ; † March 16, 1866 there ) was a Prussian mountain ridge and the first director of the Bergakademie Berlin .

Life

Heinrich Lottner was born in 1828 as the son of Justice Council Franz August Lottner and Juliane Caroline Wilhelmine Lottner. His father died early so that he grew up with an uncle in Düsseldorf. At the age of 14 he had already passed his Abitur and worked as a mining enthusiast in the Bochum collieries until he went to the University of Berlin to study mining in 1845 . He interrupted his studies in 1847 to work for three years in various mines and completed his studies in 1853 as a mining consultant at the Dortmund Oberbergamt . His brother was the linguist Carl Friedrich Lottner .

The following year he was appointed director and lecturer at the newly founded Bergschule Bochum. There he worked on the creation of the first seam map of the Westphalian coal mining .

In 1859 he passed the mountain assessor exam at the Dortmund Oberbergamt and accepted a position as a lecturer in mining at the University of Berlin. When the Bergakademie Berlin was re-established as a university in 1860, he was appointed first director, and as a freshly appointed Bergrat advisor to the mining department of the Ministry of Trade, Industry and Public Works (the predecessor of the Reich Ministry of Transport ).

Until his untimely death in 1866, Lottner was known for his pronounced pedagogical talent in conveying mountain-related content. Shortly before his death, he gave Albert Serlo his collected lecture manuscripts, which he published after revision in 1868 as a guide to mining studies , which was considered the standard work of mining studies until the turn of the century.

He remained single and left no children.

Publications

  • Guide to Mining Studies , ed. by Albert Serlo, 1868 ( digitized )
  • About the use of compressed air for sinking work in floating and water-rich mountains , magazine for mountain, iron and salt works, 1860
  • About the geognostic conditions of the Western Coal Mountains , mining and metallurgy, 1859

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Rudolf Vierhaus (ed.): German Biographical Encyclopedia; Kraatz - Menges. Walter de Gruyter, Berlin 2006, ISBN 3-1109-4027-2 , p. 568
personal data
SURNAME Lottner, Heinrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Prussian mountain ridge and first director of the Bergakademie Berlin
DATE OF BIRTH September 9, 1828
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH March 16, 1866
Place of death Berlin