Johannes Brüggen

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Johannes Otto Brüggen , also Hans Brüggen , in Chile also Juan Brüggen Messtorff (born April 25, 1887 in Lübeck , † March 7, 1953 in Santiago de Chile ) was a German geologist and Chilean university professor.

Life

Johannes Brüggen was the son of the Lübeck businessman and partner in the company H. & J. Brüggen , Heinrich Brüggen and his wife Marie, geb. Messtorff. He first attended to Quarta private Progymnasium of Otto Bussenius in Fleischhauerstraße 67 and then the Katharineum to maturity exam Easter 1905. John Brueggen studied geology and natural sciences at the universities of Jena , Zurich , Berlin ( University and Mining Academy ), Vienna , Bonn (in Bonn he received his doctorate) and from April 1910 in Rostock . During his studies in 1905 he became a member of the Arminia fraternity in the castle cellar . In 1911 he was initially a research assistant at the Technical University of Delft .

In the middle of 1911, the Chilean Ministry of Public Works obliged him to go to Chile , where he initially had a consulting contract with the government as a geologist. As a full professor of geology, he founded the Institute of Geology at the Universidad de Chile in 1917 and became head of the Chilean geological office. For health reasons, he retired from teaching in 1942.

Brüggen is the author of numerous books and articles in Spanish on questions of geology and the deposits of raw materials in Chile. Some publications have been translated into other languages, including German.

Johannes Brüggen had been married to the German-Chilean writer Herta Lenz (* 1895 in Santiago de Chile ), the daughter of the pedagogue and Romance literary scholar Rodolfo Lenz , with whom he had three daughters, since 1913 .

Fonts in German

  • (as Hans Brüggen ): The gastropods and lamellibranchs of the lower Senon of northern Perú. Stuttgart: Swiss beard 1910, plus Bonn, Univ., Diss., 1910 (partial print)
  • The fauna of the lower Senon of northern Peru. Stuttgart: Schweizerbart 1910 (Contributions to the geology and palaeontology of South America 16) / (New Yearbook for Mineralogy, Geology and Paleontology, Supplement 30)
  • Basics of the geology and mineral deposits of Chile , 1934
  • Two deposits of artesian groundwater near Santiago . Santiago 1936

Memberships

Honors

Location of the Brüggen Glacier

In 1939 he was given the title of professor by Adolf Hitler .

The Brüggen Glacier , also known as the Pío XI Glacier in the Chilean part of the Campo de Hielo Sur , and the mineral Bruggenite are named after him. The Universidad de Chile has awarded the Juan Brüggen Prize to geologists since 1942 .

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The date of death in the GND is incorrect. See instead of many ( the imprecise ) death news in New Yearbook for Geology and Paleontology , 1954, p. 511.
  2. ↑ * April 26, 1842 in Neumünster ; † October 20, 1900 in Lübeck
  3. ↑ Family Meßtorff? from Neumünster; † 1910
  4. ^ Hermann Genzken: The Abitur graduates of the Katharineum in Lübeck (grammar school and secondary school) from Easter 1807 to 1907. Borchers, Lübeck 1907, p. 81 (supplement to the school program 1907)
  5. ^ Johannes Otto Brüggen in the matriculation edition of the University of Zurich
  6. ^ Entry in 1910 in the Rostock matriculation portal
  7. ↑ Willy Nolte (Ed.): Burschenschafter Stammrolle. List of members of the German Burschenschaft according to the status of the summer semester 1934. Berlin 1934. p. 59.
  8. ↑ Zentralblatt für Mineralogie, Geologie und Paläontologie 1939, p. 400
  9. ↑ Internet presence ( Memento of the original from May 9, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.geographie.uni-wuerzburg.de
  10. ^ Journal of the German Geological Society 91 (1939), p. 783; Zentralblatt für Mineralogie, Geologie und Paläontologie 1939, p. 400
  11. ↑ en: Brüggen Glacier


personal data
SURNAME Brüggen, Johannes
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Brüggen, Hans; Brüggen Messtorff, Juan (in Chile); Brüggen, Johannes Otto (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German geologist and Chilean university professor
DATE OF BIRTH April 25, 1887
PLACE OF BIRTH Lübeck
DATE OF DEATH March 7, 1953
Place of death Santiago de Chile