Hermann Traube

Hermann Traube (born September 24, 1860 in Ratibor , Upper Silesia , † January 29, 1913 in Berlin ) was a German mineralogist .

Hermann Traube (1860–1913)

Life

Hermann Traube was a son of the chemist and private scholar Moritz Traube . His brother was Wilhelm Traube (1866–1942). He attended the Maria-Magdalenen-Gymnasium in Breslau . He then studied in Leipzig , Heidelberg , Breslau and Greifswald . During his studies in 1881 he became a member of the Academic Natural Science Association in Breslau . He received his doctorate in 1884. phil. in Greifswald with a thesis on mineralogy. H. Traube's teachers included a. Heinrich Irenaeus Quincke (1842–1922) (Heidelberg); Theodor Poleck , Carl Friedländer (1847–1887) and Ferdinand Cohn (Breslau). From 1889 he was lecturer in mineralogy and associate professor (1905) at the University of Berlin and associate professor in Greifswald (1905–1906).

Contributions to the knowledge of the gabbros, amphibolites and serpentines of the Lower Silesian Mountains . Greifswald, Phil. Diss. 1884
The minerals of Silesia with 30 zincographies . JU Kern, Breslau 1888
About the optical rotation of bodies in the crystallized and in the liquid state . In: Session reports of the Royal Prussian Academy of Sciences in Berlin. 1895 (I), pp. 195-205 digitized
Optically active body via the crystal form . In: Reports of the German Chemical Society , ISSN 0365-9496 , Vol. 30 (1897), pp. 288-288

Henrik Franke: Moritz Traube (1826-1894) From wine merchant to academician In: Studies and sources for the history of chemistry . Volume 9, Publishing House for Scientific and Regional History Dr. Michael Engel, ISBN 3-929134-21-7 .
Traube, Hermann . In: Walther Killy , Rudolf Vierhaus (Hrsg.): Deutsche Biographische Enzyklopädie . Vol. 10. Saur, Munich 1999 ISBN 3-598-23170-9 , p. 70.