Hellmut von Philipsborn

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Hellmut von Philipsborn (born August 3, 1892 in Berlin , † October 19, 1983 in Regensburg ; also cited as Helmut von Philipsborn ) was a German mineralogist.

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Hellmut von Philipsborn was born as the son of the administrative officer Ernst von Philipsborn in Berlin in 1892. After graduation in 1910 he studied at the Universities of Lausanne, Munich and Berlin law . In 1914 he went to the University of Jena to study natural sciences , although he had to interrupt his studies for four years to take part in the First World War.

In 1919 he returned to Jena . In April 1921 he moved to the University of Leipzig , where he was awarded a Dr. phil. received his doctorate. He then worked in the scientific department of the Staßfurt-Leopoldshall Kaliforschungsanstalt . In the spring of 1925 he became assistant to Karl-Hermann Scheumann at the University of Gießen , whom he followed in the autumn of 1926 as senior assistant at the TH Berlin . He completed his habilitation in the winter semester of 1927/28.

On May 1, 1929 Hellmut von Philipsborn became a full professor for mineralogy and soldering tube testing at the Freiberg Bergakademie . At the same time he became director of the Mineralogical Institute, and he was in charge of the mineralogical collection located there . In 1933 he signed the German professors' confession of Adolf Hitler . From 1938 he headed the library of the Bergakademie . From August 1939 to September 1940 and from April 1941 to 1944 he took part in the Second World War. On May 6, 1945, shortly before the Red Army reached Freiberg, Hellmut von Philipsborn and his family left the city to start over in western Germany.

Until 1949 he worked at the Bergakademie Clausthal , after which he went to the University of Bonn . From 1950 he was in charge of the Mineralogical Museum in Poppelsdorf Castle as curator . In 1956 he became a full professor for applied mineralogy at Bonn University, and in 1960 he retired. He spent the last years of his life in Munich and Regensburg , where he died in 1983.

The mineral philipsbornite was named after him.

Fonts (selection)

  • About mylonitic granite gneisses in the northern edge zone of the Saxon granulite mountains , dissertation, Leipzig, 1923
  • Tables for calculating mineral and rock analyzes , Leipzig, 1933
  • Tables for determining the minerals according to external characteristics , Stuttgart, 1953
  • Erzkunde , Stuttgart, 1964

literature

  • Carl Schiffner : From the life of old Freiberg mountain students . 3rd volume. Freiberg, 1940. pp. 134-135
  • H. Strunz: Hellmut von Philipsborn † . In: Progress of Mineralogy , 62/1984, pp. 167-170
  • Hartmut Schleiff, Roland Volkmer, Herbert Kaden : Catalogus Professorum Fribergensis: Professors and teachers at the TU Bergakademie Freiberg 1765 to 2015. Freiberg, 2015, ISBN 978-3-86012-492-5 , p. 133

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b H. Strunz: Hellmut von Philipsborn † . In: Progress of Mineralogy , 62/1984, pp. 167-170
  2. ↑ a b Hartmut Schleiff, Roland Volkmer, Herbert Kaden : Catalogus Professorum Fribergensis: Professors and Teachers of the TU Bergakademie Freiberg 1765 to 2015. Freiberg, 2015, ISBN 978-3-86012-492-5 , p. 133
  3. ↑ Mineral Atlas
personal data
SURNAME Philipsborn, Hellmut von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Philipsborn, Helmut von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German mineralogist
DATE OF BIRTH August 3, 1892
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH October 19, 1983
Place of death regensburg