Karl August Redlich

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Karl August Redlich ( October 3, 1869 in Brno - November 10, 1942 in Prague ) was an Austrian Montanist and university professor . He was repeatedly dean and from 1915 to 1917 rector of the German Technical University in Prague.

life and work

Redlich was the second son of Friedrich Redlich, a manufacturer, and his wife Rosa. He had two brothers, Sigmund and Heinrich, and at least two sisters. Because of his annual profit sharing from the family business, he was financially independent from the start. He completed military service and disarmed as a lieutenant. He studied geology , palaeontology and chemistry at the universities in Vienna and Tübingen . During his student days he already gave lectures, for example in Brno in October 1893 on deep-sea research . In the academic year 1894/95 he was a university assistant in Vienna for Professors Becke , Suess and Tschermak . He received his doctorate there in 1895.

He then researched and taught for eighteen years at the Montanlehranstalt (from 1904 Montanistische Hochschule) in Leoben , first as an assistant at the mineralogical-geological institute with Hans Höfer von Heimhalt , from 1897 as an adjunct with lectures, from 1898 as a private lecturer, from 1904 as an associate professor Professor and from 1911 as a full professor of geology, paleontology and Economic Geology . According to the ÖBL, he was considered "one of the great Montanists from the pioneering days of the Geological Inst. At the Leoben University". Research work and teaching showed him to be a particularly versatile and practical geologist. One of his main focuses was the theory of deposits. He recognized the alpine magnesite deposits as displacement deposits and researched the geological structure of the Eisenerzer Alps , especially the Erzberg . He also dealt with paleontological questions, for example the vertebrate remains of the Tertiary, the chalk fossils or the Cambrian fauna .

1913 followed a call from the German Technical University in Prague, as a full professor of mineralogy and geology. Just two years later he was elected rector of the university and held this position for two academic years. He was also dean several times. He published more than seventy scientific papers. In 1915 he married the much younger Marianne Donheimer-Herlth (1892–1968). His wife was not Jewish. The marriage remained childless. During the First World War, he did not have to go to the front because of his leadership role at the university. In 1939 he was forcibly retired because the Nazi rulers dismissed all professors of Jewish origin immediately after the attack on what was known as the rest of the Czech Republic and - with one exception - closed all universities in the Czech Republic.

Times of privation followed. Both the severance pay and the pension entitlements as well as the company's royalties had to be transferred to a blocked account.

Shortly before an interrogation by the Gestapo and his alleged deportation, he committed suicide in November 1942.

Fonts

Redlich published more than 70 papers.

Book publications

  • The gravel mines of Flatschach and Feistritzgraben near Knittelfeld , Leoben: Nüssler 1902
  • The Walchen near Öblarn , Leoben: Nüssler 1903
  • The minerals in the service of mankind , 1. The coal, Prague: Lotos 1915
  • The Styrian Erzberg , Bergbaue Styria. 9, 1916
  • The ore deposits in the area from Neuberg to Gollrad , Bergbaue Styria. 10, together with W. Stanczak, Vienna: Deuticke, 1923
  • The ore train Vordernberg – Johnsbachtal , Bergbaue Styria. 11, 1923
  • The minerals in the service of mankind , 3. Das Eisen, Prague: German association for the dissemination of non-profit knowledge 1925
  • The geology of the inner Austrian iron ore deposits , 1931
  • The geology of the inner Austrian iron ore deposits , Vienna: J. Springer, 1931

editor

Contributions (selection)

  • The metamorphism of the Obersteir. Graphite deposits, in: Oesterreichische Zeitschrift für Berg- und Hüttenwesen 49, 1901
  • Prospecting on ores from ostalpinem character, in: Report on the general Mining Convention in Vienna September 16 to 19 1912 ., Eds by the Committee of the General Bergmann day in Vienna 1913
  • The genesis of the crystalline magnesites and siderites, in: Zeitschrift fur Praxis Geologie 21, 1913
  • The types of magnesite deposits, ibid., 21, 1913
  • About some little-known crystalline magnesite deposits in Austria, in: Yearbook of the Federal Geological Institute 85, 1935

Web links

Biographical information

  • Susanne Schober-Bendixen: The Tuch-Redlichs , History of a Jewish family of manufacturers, Signum Verlag 2018
personal data
SURNAME Honest, Karl August
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian Montanist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH October 3, 1869
PLACE OF BIRTH Brno
DATE OF DEATH November 10, 1942
Place of death Prague