Johann Ludwig Carl Zincken

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Johann Ludwig Carl Zincken (in later publications also Zinken; born June 13, 1791 in Seesen , † March 19, 1862 in Bernburg ) was a German mineralogist and mining director in Bernburg. The mineral zinkenite (Pb 9 Sb 22 S 42 ) is named after him.

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Zincken was the son of Carl Friedrich Wilhelm Zincken from his second marriage. He attended the u. a. The Israelite reform school Jacobson School founded by his father in Seesen, then the grammar school in Holzminden . From 1809 to 1813 he completed an apprenticeship as a miner and smelter in Clausthal in the Upper Harz Mountains and then became an apprentice at the Königshütte in Lauterberg .

In 1811 his name can be found in the first matriculation of the Clausthal mountain school . In 1813 he married the sister of the local pastor Schleiter in Lauterberg and in 1814 became a mountain auditor in Blankenburg . He corresponded with Wilhelm Ludwig von Eschwege (Brazil's first geological researcher) and wrote his first publications. As a mountain ridge, he became director of the Anhalt-Bernburg mining and ironworks in Mägdesprung on January 1, 1821, and put on an important mineral collection for Duke Alexius von Anhalt-Bernburg . Remnants of this collection, which mainly includes minerals from the Duchy of Anhalt , are now in the Museum Schloss Bernburg . In 1827 he founded the Carlswerk in Mägdesprung, which later became a machine factory . In 1829 he suggested the construction of the Herzog-Alexius-Erbstollen .

Several first discoveries of minerals in the Harz go back to Zincken , but also the discovery of several new minerals, including plagionite and heteromorphite . One of the new minerals he found was named Zinckenit (international name of the IMA: Zinkenit ). As a mountain ridge, he also initiated the first presentation of elemental selenium . On October 15, 1844 (matriculation no. 1552) he was elected a member of the Leopoldina with the surname Lasius .

In 1848 he was suspended from service on suspicion of abuse of office, then rehabilitated in 1850. He then worked in Bernburg as a ministerial advisor for mining and metallurgy. He died on March 19, 1862 in the house at Carlsplatz 11 in Bernburg. His grave was destroyed in 1974 when a city park was being built.

In his hometown Seesen a street is named after Zincken. The mineral collection he created is one of the attractions of the Museum Schloss Bernburg .

Fonts

  • About the geognostic occurrence of the Harz selenium fossils . In: Poggendorff's Annalen 3 (1825), pp. 271-280.
  • The eastern Harz viewed from a mineralogical and mining perspective . Brunswick 1825.
  • Geognostic mining chart of the eastern Harz, 1st division . Magdeburg 1825 (available in: University and State Library Halle / Saale; Altkt. B).
  • About the extraction of selenium on a large scale from the selenium lead . In: Erdm. Journ. 6 (1829), pp. 230-235.
  • Sur le palladium trouvé dans le duché d'Anhalt-Bernburg . In: Annales des Mines 3 (1832), pp. 447-448.
  • About a new occurrence of arsenic copper in chili . In: Poggendorff's Annalen der Physik 41 (1837), pp. 659-660.

literature

  • Dieter Klaus: The Tilkerode / Harz hematite deposit and its selenide paragenesis . In: Emser Hefte vol. 10 . No. 3 , 1989, pp. 57-73 .
  • V. v. Röder: A Anhalt ducat with the legend "ex auro Anhaltino" (made from Anhalt gold) . Dessau 1905 (available in: Landesbibliothek Dessau Df4-1452).
  • Karl Alfred von ZittelZincken, Karl Johann . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 45, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1900, p. 315 f.
  • Edgar Presia: On the 200th birthday of J. Karl L. Zincken. In: Our Harz, 1990, no. 6

Web links

Wikisource: Johann Ludwig Carl Zincken  - Sources and full texts

Individual evidence

  1. strahlen.org - Heteromorphit (with short biography of both first writers)
  2. ^ Johann Daniel Ferdinand Neigebaur : History of the Imperial Leopoldino-Carolinian German Academy of Natural Scientists during the second century of its existence. Friedrich Frommann, Jena 1860, p. 272