Julius Ottmer

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Eduard Julius Otto Karl Ottmer (born August 27, 1846 in Braunschweig ; died May 13, 1886 there ) was a German mineralogist and geologist .

Life

Julius Ottmer was the only son of the Braunschweig lawyer and notary Heinrich Eduard Ottmer and his wife Marie Sophie Friederike, née Rohde. The architect and Brunswick court builder Carl Theodor Ottmer was his uncle and the mountain ridge Heinrich Carl Wilhelm Abich (1772–1844) his great-uncle.

He attended the Realgymnasium in Braunschweig and, after graduating from high school in 1863, studied at the forerunner of the Technical University of Braunschweig, which was renamed from Collegium Carolinum to "Polytechnic School" at the beginning of the winter semester 1862/63, and from 1865 at the universities of Munich, Göttingen and Berlin. On March 23, 1872 he was promoted to Dr. phil. doctorate and on September 12, 1872 he was given the teaching post for mineralogy and geology at the Polytechnic School in Braunschweig. On April 25, 1874 he was awarded the title of professor.

Ottmer had been a member of the Society for Natural Sciences in Braunschweig since 1868 and was accepted into the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina in the section Mineralogy, Crystallography and Petrology on June 5, 1883 ( matriculation no. 2392 ) . For his services he was awarded the Knight's Cross by the Order of Henry the Lion .

Julius Ottmer was married to his wife Elly, née Brügelmann, on March 14, 1884. He was buried in the Magnifriedhof in Braunschweig. His family donated his scientific collection to the Technical University of Braunschweig.

literature

  • Wilhelm Blasius : Nekrolog Eduard Julius Otto Ottmer . In: New Yearbook for Mineralogy, Geology and Palaeontology, 1886, II, E. Schweizerbart'sche Verlagshandlung (E. Koch), Stuttgart 1886, pp. 1-2 digitized
  • John Landauer : Nekrolog Julius Ottmer . In: 4th annual report of the Braunschweig Natural Science Association for the years 1883/84 and 1885/86, Vieweg, Braunschweig 1887, pp. 225–230 PDF

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Willi Ule : History of the Imperial Leopoldine-Carolinian German Academy of Natural Scientists during the years 1852–1887 . With a look back at the earlier times of its existence. In commission at Wilh. Engelmann in Leipzig, Halle 1889, list of members according to the chronological order of their entry from 1860 to December 31, 1887, p. 219 ( archive.org ).
personal data
SURNAME Ottmer, Julius
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ottmer, Eduard Julius Otto Karl (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German mineralogist and geologist
DATE OF BIRTH August 27, 1846
PLACE OF BIRTH Braunschweig
DATE OF DEATH May 13, 1886
Place of death Braunschweig