Hugo Bucking

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Grave of Hugo Bücking in the main cemetery in Marburg (2017)

Hugo Bücking (born September 12, 1851 in Bieber im Spessart , † November 18, 1932 in Heidelberg ) was a German geologist and mineralogist .

Life

Bücking was born the son of a mining clerk. During his studies in 1870 he became a member of the Grimensia Leipzig Landsmannschaft . Bucking in 1874 at the University of Marburg to Dr. phil. doctorate and, after an assistantship with Paul Heinrich von Groth in Strasbourg, habilitated at the University of Berlin in 1879 . In 1881 he became an associate professor at the University of Kiel . In 1882 he was a full professor of mineralogy and geology , as well as director of the mineralogical museum and institute at the University of Kiel. In 1883 he became director of the geological institute of Alsace-Lorraine and professor of mineralogy at the University of Strasbourg , succeeding his teacher Groth.

As Alsace became French after the First World War, Bücking had to leave his position in 1919. He is replaced by Georges Friedel and goes to Heidelberg as a professor emeritus, where he dies at the age of 82 as the Imperial Secret Bergrat and corresponding member of the physical-mathematical class of the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences .

Bücking made quantitative measurements on the photoelastic behavior of crystals . In addition, he had identified several hundred types of crystal structures from the most varied of origins and examined them experimentally for their chemical applications. Bücking also initiated the geological exploration of the North Spessart .

From 1879 to 1881 he was with the Prussian Geological State Institute (PGLA).

honors and awards

Memberships

Fonts

  • Geological map of Attica / started by Richard Lepsius [(1851–1915)] a. H [ugo] Bücking, continued a. ed. by Richard Lepsius. At the expense of the Kgl. Preuss. Academy d. Sciences. Issued on a scale of 1:25,000. Berlin: Reimer, 1891
  • Geological guide through the Rhön. Borntraeger publishing house, 1916
  • Preliminary report on the Olympia geological survey. 1881
  • About the storage conditions of the older layers in Attica. 1884
  • New mineral finds from Western rules. 1885
  • The north-western Spessart. Treatises of the Royal Prussian Geological State Institute, New Series, Issue 12, 274 pp., 3 plates, Schropp, Berlin 1892 Archives
  • Sulfoborite, a new crystallized borate from Western rules. 1893
  • Geology of the Rhön. Fulda Actiendruckerei, 1908
  • About basalt from the southeastern Vogelsberg and from Schwarzenfels in Hesse. 1878
  • On the geology of North and East Sumatra. 1904
  • The usable minerals and mountain types in the German Empire. 1906

literature

  • Joachim Lorenz : Hugo Bücking (1851-1932) - a well-known mineralogist from the former mining town of Bieber in the Spessart. In: Annual reports of the Wetterau Society for all natural history in Hanau , Volume 155 - 157, pages 121 - 176, 12 illustrations, Hanau August 30, 2007 (reprint in cooperation with the Biebergemünd History Association)
  • Upper Rhine Geological Association: Annual reports and communications , 1931, page XVI

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Berthold Ohm and Alfred Philipp (eds.): Directory of addresses of the old men of the German Landsmannschaft. Part 1. Hamburg 1932, p. 167.

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personal data
SURNAME Bucking, Hugo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German geologist and mineralogist
DATE OF BIRTH September 12, 1851
PLACE OF BIRTH Beaver in the Spessart
DATE OF DEATH November 18, 1932
Place of death Heidelberg