Jan Hloušek

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Jan Hloušek

Jan Hloušek (born March 10, 1950 in Karlovy Vary ; † April 27, 2014 in Jáchymov ) was a Czech geologist, mineralogist and historian.

Life

He attended grammar school in Karlovy Vary, where he graduated from high school in 1968. Two years earlier, he had lost his left hand in a laboratory explosion, which made it very difficult for him to get a place at Charles University in Prague . After several attempts he got a place at the hydrology department and after a semester he was able to start studying mineralogy, which was thematically better .

In 1976 he defended his dissertation at the Charles University in Prague with the mineralogist František Čech , after whom the mineral Čechit was named. He received the Czech degree RNDr. He then worked at the ore research institute in Mníšek pod Brdy . Here, among other things, he modified and improved the Debye-Scherrer chambers using the Gandolfi method. In 1993 Jan Hloušek moved to Jáchymov in the Ore Mountains , where he devoted himself to a research program in the field of mineralogy. Here he was best known for his scientific description of the mineralogy of the Jáchymov deposit. He died at the age of 64.

Honors

Because of his extraordinary contribution to a better knowledge of the local mineralogy, geology and history, he was given honorary citizenship of his hometown.

Works (selection)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Doctor of Natural Sciences (cs: doktor přírodních věd, sk: doktor prírodných vied, la: rerum naturalium doctor)
  2. ↑ http://www.jachymov-joachimsthal.cz/jan-hlousek/ Biography with pictures on the Jáchymov website
personal data
SURNAME Hloušek, Jan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Czech geologist, mineralogist and historian
DATE OF BIRTH March 10, 1950
PLACE OF BIRTH Carlsbad , Czechoslovakia
DATE OF DEATH April 27, 2014
Place of death Jáchymov