Hermann Tertsch

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Hermann Julius Tertsch (born February 18, 1880 in Alt Petrein , South Moravia , † December 14, 1962 in Vienna ) was an Austrian mineralogist and crystallographer.

Life

Tertsch attended the German State High School in Brno and studied natural sciences at the University of Vienna from 1898 . There he turned to mineralogy under the influence of Friedrich Becke , was his assistant from 1901 to 1903 and received his doctorate in 1903 ( optical orientation of feldspars of the oligoclase group ). He then passed his teaching examinations and was from 1903 a teacher at the secondary school in Trieste , 1906 to 1920 at the secondary school Vienna XIII and 1920 to 1933 provincial school inspector of the secondary schools in Lower Austria. He was given the title of councilor and retired in 1933 after becoming disabled in a traffic accident in 1928.

He completed his habilitation at the University of Vienna in 1910 (crystal costumes of tin stone) and from 1920 was a member of the teaching examination commissions of the University of Vienna. From 1921 to 1933 he had a teaching position in crystallography and crystal physics. In 1922 he was awarded the title of associate professor and in 1939 he became an extraordinary associate professor. After the death of Alfred Himmelbauer , he temporarily took over the teaching post for mineralogy at the university in 1943/44, until Felix Machatschki succeeded him.

He published around 150 scientific papers in mineralogy.

Honors and memberships

Tertsch was an honorary member of the German Mineralogical Society and in 1960 honorary president of the Austrian Mineralogical Society , whose Friedrich Becke Medal he received in 1956. In 1931 he became a corresponding member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences.

A mineral described by Heinz Meixner in 1953 was named Tertschit in his honor .

Fonts

  • Introduction to the theory of minerals and rocks, Deuticke, Vienna 1914
  • Introduction to mineralogy, Vienna 1915
  • with FX Schaffer: Building the Earth's Crust, Vienna 1931
  • Trachten der Kristall, research on crystal science, Berlin 1926
  • The stereographic projection in crystal science, Verlag für Angewandte Wissenschaften, Wiesbaden 1954
  • The strength properties of crystals, Springer 1948
  • with Franz Raaz: Geometrical crystallography and crystal optics and their working methods: an introduction, Springer 1939
    • 3rd edition as: Introduction to geometrical and physical crystallography and their working methods , Springer 1958
  • Crystal drawing based on stereographic projection, Springer 1935

Popular science books:

  • The key to the structure of matter, Verlag für Jugend und Volk, Vienna 1939, 2nd edition 1948
  • The Secret of the Crystal World - Novel of a Science, Gerlach and Wiedling Verlag, Vienna 1947

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ John W. Anthony, Richard A. Bideaux, Kenneth W. Bladh, Monte C. Nichols: ' , in: Handbook of Mineralogy, Mineralogical Society of America , 2001 ( PDF 64.8 kB )
personal data
SURNAME Tertsch, Hermann
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Tertsch, Hermann Julius
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian mineralogist
DATE OF BIRTH February 18, 1880
PLACE OF BIRTH Old Petrein
DATE OF DEATH December 14, 1962
Place of death Vienna