Hermann von Abich

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Otto Wilhelm Hermann von Abich

Otto Wilhelm Hermann von Abich (born December 11, 1806 in Berlin , † July 1, 1886 in Vienna ) was a German mineralogist , geologist and explorer.

Life

Abich was the son of the Brunswick mountain councilor Heinrich Abich and the daughter of the chemist Martin Heinrich Klaproth , Johanna Wilhelmine. Father and grandfather on his father's side were mountain officials and tenants of the Schöningen saltworks .

Work and work

Abich delivered his first scientific work on spinels and other minerals . He later studied fumaroles , minerals near volcanoes, and the structures of volcanoes. In 1842 he was appointed professor of mineralogy at the University of Dorpat and between 1850 and 1880 he made frequent trips to Armenia and the Caucasus countries. In 1853 he became a member of the St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences and in 1858 a corresponding member of the Prussian Academy of Sciences . He was a corresponding member of the Académie des sciences since 1879. He was a member of the Society of German Natural Scientists and Doctors . From 1877 he lived in Vienna. He had previously visited Tbilisi and studied the geology of the Caucasus .

The mineral abichite , German for clinoclase , was named after him.

Fonts

  • Across the soda lakes on the Araxes plain. 1846 and 1849.
  • About orography of Daghestan. 1847.
  • Meteorological observations in Transcaucasia. 1848 and 1850, among others
  • Illustrative images of geological phenomena, observed on Vesuvius and Etna in 1833 and 1834. Berlin 1836.
  • About the nature and the connection of volcanic formations. Braunschweig 1841.
  • About the geological nature of the Armenian highlands. Dorpat 1843.
  • Comparative chemical studies of the waters of the Caspian Sea, Urmia and Wansee. Petersburg 1856.
  • Contributions to the paleontology of Asiatic Russia. Petersburg 1858. Archives
  • Comparative geological features of the Caucasian, Armenian and North Persian mountains. Petersburg 1858. Archives
  • About rock salt and its geological position in Russian Armenia. Petersburg 1857. Archives
  • Sur la structure et la. geologie du Daghestan . Petersburg 1862 (PDF; 2.6 MB) .
  • About an island that appeared in the Caspian Sea, along with articles on the knowledge of the mud volcanoes of the Caspian region. Petersburg 1863. Archives
  • Introductory outline of the geology of the Kerch and Taman peninsulas . (= Mémoires de l'Académie Impériale des Sciences de St.-Pétersbourg . Series 7; t. 9, N 4). Petersburg 1865 Archive , (PDF; 7.8 MB) .
  • Geological observations on tires between Kur and Araxes. Petersburg 1867.
  • Geological research in the Caucasian countries. Vienna, 1878 part 1, 1882 part 2.
  • Adelaide Abich (Ed.): From Caucasian Countries: Travel Letters. Volume 1: Letters from the years 1842–1853 to his parents and siblings. Volume 2: Letters from 1859–1874 to his wife. Vienna 1896.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Members of the Russian Academy of Sciences since 1724: Abich, Hermann Wilhelmowitsch. Russian Academy of Sciences, accessed September 30, 2019 (Russian).
  2. ^ Members of the previous academies. Hermann (Otto Wilhelm Hermann) Abich. Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences, accessed on February 10, 2015 .
  3. ^ List of members since 1666: letter A. Académie des sciences, accessed on September 30, 2019 (French).
  4. ↑ Members of the Society of German Natural Scientists and Doctors 1857
personal data
SURNAME Abich, Hermann von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Abich, Wilhelm Hermann; Abich, Otto Wilhelm Hermann from
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German mineralogist, geologist and explorer
DATE OF BIRTH December 11, 1806
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH July 1, 1886
Place of death Vienna