Hilmar Schumann

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Hilmar Schumann (born November 8, 1902 in Potsdam , † December 24, 2001 in Braunschweig ) was a German geologist , mineralogist and petrologist .

Life

Hilmar Schumann, son of Richard Schumann and Erna born Jastram wondered at the duty station of his father Vienna the matriculation examination from, then he devoted himself at the city's university studies of Geology and Mineralogy, 1928 took place its graduation to the Dr. phil. After years of assistance , he completed his habilitation in 1940 as a private lecturer in the subject of mineralogy at the University of Göttingen , and in 1947 he was appointed as an adjunct professor there. In 1954 he accepted an offer for the professorship of mineralogy and geology at the TH Dresden . Schumann, who held the Dean's Office of the Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences there from 1958 to 1960 , switched to a private lecturer in mineralogy and petrography at the Technical University of Braunschweig in 1961 , in 1963 he was appointed full professor and head of the Mineralogical-Petrographic Institute, and in 1968 he was appointed retired .

Schumann, who turned to the research areas of polarization microscopy , petrography and sediment petrography, became a full member of the Braunschweigische Wissenschaftliche Gesellschaft , a member of the German Mineralogical Society, an honorary member of the Austrian Mineralogical Society in 1978 and of the Friends of the Mineral Cabinet in 1998 TU Braunschweig added. Robert Schumann's great-great-nephew , who married Ursula, widowed Dunkelberg, née Eysen in 1956, died on December 24, 2001 at the age of 99 in Braunschweig.

Fonts

  • About Moldanubian para slate from the Lower Austrian Waldviertel between Gföhler gneiss and Bittescher gneiss. (= Dissertation ) Academic Publishing Company, 1929.
  • A Mecklenburg glauconite sandstone. with The determination of the maximum birefringence of uniaxial minerals in oblique sections. (Supplement) in: Chemie d. Earth. Volume 13, Issue 3. Fischer, Jena 1940. (= Habilitation thesis, Göttingen 1940)
  • Introduction to the rock world. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1950, OCLC 256023871 .
  • To determine the refraction quotient of non-opaque mineral substances with the help of the polarization angle. in: News from the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen. No. 8., Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1960, OCLC 73939186 .
  • Basics of geological knowledge for technicians. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1962, ISBN 3-525-42501-5 .
  • With Friedrich Rinne , Max Berek , Franz Kornder: Instructions for general and polarization microscopy of solids in transmitted light. Edition 3, E. Schweizerbart, Stuttgart 1973, ISBN 3-510-65040-9 .

literature

personal data
SURNAME Schumann, Hilmar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German geologist, mineralogist and petrologist
DATE OF BIRTH November 8, 1902
PLACE OF BIRTH Potsdam
DATE OF DEATH December 24, 2001
Place of death Braunschweig