Hendrik Enno Boeke

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Hendrik Enno Boeke (born September 12, 1881 in Wormerveer , † December 6, 1918 in Frankfurt am Main ) was a Dutch mineralogist . He taught at the universities of Königsberg , Leipzig , Halle (Saale) and Frankfurt am Main .

Life

Hendrik Enno Boeke was the son of Isaak Hermann, who was a Mennonite clergyman , and Sara Maria van Gelder. First he attended a grammar school , then an upper secondary school in Amsterdam . In 1900 he moved to the University of Amsterdam to study chemistry . His teachers were Hendrik Willem Bakhuis Roozeboom and Johannes Diderik van der Waals . He studied at the University of Oslo in 1905, in 1905/1906 he worked with Gustav Tammann at the University of Göttingen , where he also studied during this period. In 1906 he completed his studies in Amsterdam with the promotion for Doctor Phil. from. The dissertation was called De mengkrystallen bij natriumsulfaat, -molybdaat en -wolframaat and dealt with heavy metal crystals . In 1906 he married Leonore Mirandolle in The Hague . This year he also became Friedrich Rinne's assistant at the TH Hannover .

In 1908 Boeke completed his habilitation in chemistry at the University of Königsberg, to which he had switched with Rinne. The habilitation thesis was called On the Crystallization Scheme of Chlorides, Bromides and Iodides of Sodium, Potassium and Magnesium . That year she hired him as a private lecturer . As an associate professor , he has taught physical-chemical mineralogy and petrography at the Faculty of Philosophy at the University of Leipzig since 1910 . Thus he was the first German professor for this special subject. As early as the next year he moved to the University of Halle as an associate professor for the same subjects.

In 1912 he traveled to New York and Washington . He also visited the Institute for Geophysics in Washington. The following year he went on a study trip to Canada .

The University of Frankfurt am Main finally appointed Boeke full professor for mineralogy in 1914 after he had rejected an appointment from the University of Tübingen . There he also headed the Institute for Mineralogy.

During the First World War , Boeke also worked at the University of Ghent . He taught in Frankfurt until his death. He died there by suicide on December 6, 1918 at the age of 37 .

Boeke had been a member of the Leopoldina since 1914 .

Services

Boeke introduced chemistry, physics, and math-based thinking and working methods to petrography . These contrasted with the previously descriptive procedures. He also published works on metal salts and continued to study salt deposits and magma rocks.

Works

  • De mengkrystallen bij natriumsulfaat, -molybdaat en -wolframaat (dissertation, 1906)
  • About the crystallization scheme of the chlorides, bromides and iodides of sodium, potassium and magnesium (habilitation thesis)
  • The use of stereographic projection in crystallographic examinations (Berlin 1911)
  • The Gnomonic Projection in its Application to Crystallographic Tasks (Berlin 1913)
  • Basics of physical-chemical petrography (Berlin 1915)

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SURNAME Boeke, Hendrik Enno
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Dutch mineralogist
DATE OF BIRTH September 12, 1881
PLACE OF BIRTH Wormerveer
DATE OF DEATH December 6, 1918
Place of death Frankfurt am Main