Hermann Vogelsang (geologist)

Hermann Vogelsang (1838–1874)

Hermann Vogelsang (born April 11, 1838 in Minden ; † June 6, 1874 in Delft ) was a geologist .

biography

Vogelsang studied in Bonn, traveled to southern France , Italy and Corsica , completed his habilitation in Bonn in 1864 and became a professor at the Delft Polytechnic in 1865 .

His main work was devoted to mineralogical and geological microscopy with the help of thin sections , to the development of which he made a significant contribution. He demonstrated the presence of liquid carbonic acid in many minerals and rocks, examined the beginnings of crystal formations and made suggestions for a new classification of rocks.

family

He was married to Antonia Francisca Zirkel (born January 11, 1842 in Bonn), sister of the Leipzig mineralogist Ferdinand Zirkel (1838-1912)

• Child: Karl Vogelsang (1866–1920), head of mining and smelting works of the Mansfeld copper-slate-building union in Eisleben
• Grandson: Kurd Vogelsang (1901–?), Dr. med., Professor of Ophthalmology at the Charité Berlin .

Publications

• On the microscopic structure of the slags and relationships with the genesis of crystalline rocks (Leipzig 1864)
• The volcanoes of the Eifel, in their form of formation Bonn explains 1864; Reprint: The volcanoes of the Eifel explained in their way of formation: a contribution to the development history of the volcanoes , Aurel, Daun 2008, ISBN 978-3-938759-10-3 (Pp.) / ISBN 978-3-938759-09-7 (kart .).
• Philosophy of Geology and Microscopic Rock Studies (Bonn 1867)
• On the systematics of rock theory (Bonn 1871)
• About the natural ultramarine compounds (Bonn 1873)
• The crystallites (published by Zirkel, Leipzig 1874)

Others

He is not to be confused with Wolfgang Moritz Vogelgesang .

literature

• Wilhelm von Gümbel:  Vogelsang, Hermann . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 40, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1896, p. 154 f.

Web link

• Literature by and about Hermann Vogelsang in the catalog of the German National Library

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