Justus Roth
Justus Ludwig Adolf Roth (born September 15, 1818 in Hamburg , † April 1, 1892 ) was a German geologist .
Life
Roth initially devoted himself to pharmacy and was the owner of a pharmacy in Hamburg from 1844–48 . Then he went to Berlin as a private citizen and in 1867 became a professor at Berlin University.
He published mainly on topics of crystallography and volcanology and wrote two volumes on chemical geology when he was old. Roth also took part in the geological mapping of Silesia , wrote annual reports on physical geography for the progress of physics, and edited Eilhard Mitscherlich 's work on volcanic phenomena in the Eifel (Berlin 1865).
In 1864 he was elected a member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina and in 1867 a full member of the Prussian Academy of Sciences . In 1889 he was elected a corresponding member of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences .
Justus Roth died in 1892 at the age of 73 and was buried in the Old St. Matthew Cemetery in Schöneberg near Berlin. The grave has not been preserved.
Fonts
- The spherical forms in the mineral kingdom (Dresden and Leipzig 1844);
- The Vesuvius and the region of Naples (Berlin 1857);
- The rock analyzes in tabular overview and with critical explanations (Berlin 1861), a work to which the contributions to the petrography of plutonic rocks (1869, 1873, 1879, 1884) belong as a continuation;
- About serpentine and its genetic relationships (Berlin 1870);
- About the doctrine of metamorphism and the origin of crystalline slate (Berlin 1871);
- Studies on Monte Somma (Berlin 1877);
- River water, sea water, rock salt . Habel, Berlin 1878 ( digitized version )
- General and chemical geology (there 1879 to 1887, vol. 1 and 2) digitized
- About the earthquake . Habel, Berlin 1882 ( digitized version )
Individual evidence
- ^ Member entry of Justus Roth at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on June 23, 2016.
- ↑ Holger Krahnke: The members of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen 1751-2001 (= Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Philological-Historical Class. Volume 3, Vol. 246 = Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Mathematical-Physical Class. Episode 3, vol. 50). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2001, ISBN 3-525-82516-1 , p. 206.
- ^ Hans-Jürgen Mende: Lexicon of Berlin tombs . Haude & Spener, Berlin 2006. p. 308.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Roth, Justus |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Roth, Justus Ludwig Adolf |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German geologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 15, 1818 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Hamburg |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 1, 1892 |