Jakob Beckenkamp

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Jakob Beckenkamp

Jakob Beckenkamp (born February 20, 1855 in Horchheim ; † January 12, 1931 in Würzburg ) was Professor at the Chair of Mineralogy and Crystallography at the Julius Maximilians University of Würzburg .

Biography and work

Jakob Beckenkamp was the oldest of eight children of the elementary school teacher Johann Cyrill Beckenkamp. After graduating from the humanistic grammar school in Koblenz, today's Görres grammar school , he studied mathematics and natural sciences at the University of Bonn from 1876 . From 1879 to 1882 he studied mineralogy and crystallography at the University of Strasbourg and received his doctorate there in 1881 with a dissertation on the thermal expansion of crystals . After completing his doctorate and the subsequent examination for a higher teaching post, he was employed as a teacher in Alsace for a few years .

In 1883 he married Sophie Leikert from Horchheim in Strasbourg. The marriage resulted in three children, Walther (1884), Otto (1886) and Hedwig (1887), all three of whom reached adulthood, married and started families.

In 1885 he completed his habilitation at the Philosophical Faculty of the University of Freiburg . In 1891 he was appointed professor of physics and mineralogy at the high school for chemistry in Mulhouse in Alsace.

He was appointed professor of mineralogy and crystallography at the University of Würzburg in 1897, succeeding Fridolin von Sandberger , with the condition that he would also hold lectures on geology until further notice . Beckenkamp represented a physico-chemical research approach and brought mathematical methods to the determination of crystals. In a large number of articles he deals with the morphological connections to the physical and chemical properties of the respective crystals. In addition, he developed a mathematical theory of the forces and symmetry relationships within the crystals. His new methodological approaches met with incomprehension from some colleagues, others praised their mathematical elegance and pointed out his work as pointing the way for the establishment of a more modern crystallography and fine engineering. The institute building on Pleicherwall, which is now a listed building, was built under his responsibility (1901–1903).

Beckenkamp held his chair in Würzburg until his retirement on April 1, 1929. He was buried together with his wife in the still existing family grave in Horchheim.

Beckenkamp made a geological map of the area around Würzburg.

Honors

In 1898 Beckenkamp was elected a member of the Leopoldina Scholars' Academy . In 1927 he received the title of a secret council from the Free State of Bavaria . On July 5, 1962, what was then Bergstrasse in Koblenz-Horchheim was renamed Beckenkamp-Strasse . The resolution proposal shows that Jakob Beckenkamp and not the painter Benedikt Beckenkamp should be honored with this name.

Publications

  • Static and Kinetic Crystal Theories. I. Geometric properties of the crystals and their illustration by means of geometric structure images . 206 pages, with 303 text fig. Gebr. Borntraeger, Berlin 1913 Archives
  • Static and Kinetic Crystal Theories. II. Theory of the propagation of energy in crystals by radiation (crystal optics) and illustration of the optical properties of the crystallized silica by means of static structures . 671 pages, with 487 text fig. and 7 stereoscopic images, Gebr. Borntraeger, Berlin 1915 Archive
  • Guide to crystallography . 466 pages, with 549 figures, Gebr. Borntraeger, Berlin 1919
  • Geological-hypsometric map of Würzburg and the surrounding area by J. Beckenkamp. Scale 1: 25,000. Taken from 1905 - 1925, drawn by Georg Krapf. University printing house H. Stürtz AG, Würzburg.

In addition, Ernst Schiebold names 127 publications of specialist articles by Beckenkamp in his obituary.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ List of members Leopoldina, Jacob Beckenkamp (with picture)
  2. ↑ Schiebold, E .: Jakob Beckenkamp † , Centralblatt für Mineralogie etc., year 1931, Dept. A No. 7, pp. 257-269
personal data
SURNAME Beckenkamp, ​​Jakob
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German mineralogist
DATE OF BIRTH February 20, 1855
PLACE OF BIRTH Horchheim , Rhine Province , Kingdom of Prussia
DATE OF DEATH January 12, 1931
Place of death Würzburg , Bavaria , Weimar Republic