Johann Friedrich Wilhelm Widenmann

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Johann Friedrich Wilhelm Widenmann , also Johann Friederich Wilhelm Widenmann (* 1764 in Kirchheim unter Teck , † 1798 in Michelstadt ) was a German mineralogist , montanist and mountain burr.

After his studies with Abraham Gottlob Werner at the Bergakademie Freiberg, Widenmann worked as senior mining office secretary, mountain burr and university professor in Württemberg. Within the basalt dispute , he took the positions of the Neptunists . His handbook of the oryktognostischen part of the mineralogy was around 1800 an important reference work for the mineralogy and rock science.

In recognition of his services, the rare uranium mineral widenmannite was named after him. The type locality of the widenmannite is the Michael mine in Reichenbach in the Black Forest . He was a member of several learned societies , for example the Society of Friends of Natural Sciences in Berlin and the Leipzig Economic Society .

Works

  • Johann Friedrich Groß (†), Johann Friedrich Wilhelm Widenmann: Principles of the art of lightning conduction examined and explained by a strange case. Verlag Siegfried Leberecht Crusius , Leipzig 1796
  • Handbook of the oryktognostischen part of the mineralogy of Johann Friederich Wilhelm Widenmann Herzoglich Würtembergischen Bergrathe, the Societät der Bergbaukunde, the Gesellschaft Naturforschender Freunde zu Berlin, and the economic Societät zu Leipzig, member. Crusius, Leipzig 1794
  • About the transformation of one kind of earth and stone into the other. A treatise, which by the Royal. Akad. Der Wissenschaften for the year 1791 has received the price of one hundred ducats. Royal Prussia. Academic art and bookshop, Berlin 1792

literature

  • Otfried Wagenbreth : History of the geology in Germany. Enke / Thieme Verlag, Stuttgart 1999, ISBN 3-13-118361-6
  • Bergrat Sell: biography of the deceased herzogl. Würtembergl. Hof- und Domainenraths JFW Widenmann, together with a chronological list of the writings written by the deceased , p. 389ff. in: The Society of Friends of Natural Science in Berlin , New Writings. 2. Vol., 1799, ( online )

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personal data
SURNAME Widenmann, Johann Friedrich Wilhelm
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Widenmann, Johann Friederich Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German mineralogist
DATE OF BIRTH 1764
PLACE OF BIRTH Kirchheim unter Teck
DATE OF DEATH 1798
Place of death Michelstadt