Hermann Steinmetz (mineralogist)
Hermann Steinmetz (born December 31, 1879 in Regensburg , † August 16, 1964 in Munich ) was a German mineralogist .
Steinmetz was the son of the historian and classical philologist Georg Steinmetz (1850–1945), vice principal at the old grammar school and curator of the Ulrich Museum in Regensburg. After graduating from high school in 1898, he studied natural sciences and especially chemistry at the University of Munich , where he received his doctorate in 1903 (About Thallioxalate). From 1905 he was an assistant at the Mineralogical Institute of the University of Munich and from 1923 conservator in the mineral collection of the Bavarian State Collection. In 1928 he became a full professor at the Bergakademie Freiberg , but in the same year he switched to the Technical University of Munich . In 1950 he was retired there.
Since 1936 he was a full member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences . In 1948 he became an honorary member of the German Mineralogical Society . In 1952 he received the Albertus Magnus Medal from Regensburg.
Fonts
- Mineralogy, Dieterich 1948
He worked on Gmelin-Kraut's handbook of inorganic chemistry.
literature
- Ludwig Pongratz: Dr. Hermann Steinmetz † . In: Acta Albertina Ratisbonensia 27, 1966, p. 93 ( digitized version ).
Individual evidence
- ^ Hermann Steinmetz obituary in the 1965 yearbook of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences (PDF file).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Steinmetz, Hermann |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German mineralogist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 31, 1879 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Regensburg , German Empire |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 16, 1964 |
| Place of death | Munich , Germany |