Karl Haushofer (mineralogist)

Karl von Haushofer

Karl Haushofer , from 1891 Ritter von Haushofer , (born April 28, 1839 in Munich ; † January 8, 1895 ibid) was a German mineralogist , university lecturer and self-taught painter and draftsman in Munich.

Life

Karl Haushofer was the son of the landscape painter Max Haushofer and his wife Anna ("Nannerl"), née Dumbser (1819–1902), and the older brother of the economist Max Haushofer Jr. In the school year 1856/57, he left the German Stephansgymnasium at Prague Lesser side in the upper class of the Munich Maximiliansgymnasium (Abitur) He studied chemistry in Munich, Prague and Freiberg from 1857 and received his doctorate. phil. After two years of practical experience in the iron and steel industry, he completed his habilitation in 1865 as a private lecturer in mineralogy at the University of Munich. In 1868, when the technical university there was founded, he was appointed professor of mineralogy and metallurgy as the successor to the mineralogist Franz von Kobell . In 1889 he became director of the TH Munich and in 1892 a member of the top school council. He carried out investigations into asterism and the etched figures on calcite , which led to important results in the field of crystal physics , and studied the crystallographic relationships of many organic compounds and the decomposition of granite by water.

Karl Haushofer also published articles on art history, including for the journal of the Kunstgewerbeverein in Munich published by Georg Hirth . As an autodidactic painter and draftsman, he found his motifs primarily on the Chiemsee island of Frauenwörth and was one of the illustrators of the "Frauenwörther Künstlerchronik". He also provided a number of geological landscape pictures as blackboards for lessons. As a co-founder of the German Alpine Club , he edited its magazine for several years.

From 1858 he was a member of the Corps Franconia Munich and from the winter semester 1859/60 of the Corps Franconia Freiberg .

In 1886 Prince Regent Luitpold of Bavaria awarded him the Knight's Cross First Class of the Order of Merit of St. Michael and with the award of the Knight's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Bavarian Crown in 1891 he was elevated to the personal nobility as "Knight von Haushofer" . In 1887 he was elected a member of the Leopoldina .

Like his wife Mina (1845–1890), he was buried in the cemetery on the Frauenchiemsee island .

Publications

• About asterism and Brewster's light figures on calcite. A contribution to the physics of crystals . With six panels. M. Rieger, Munich 1865.
• Auxiliary tables for determining the rocks (mountain types) with consideration of their chemical behavior , compiled by Karl Haushofer. Lindauer, Munich, 1867.
• The minerals in 64 colored illustrations after nature by JC Weber, 2nd revised and enlarged edition, with the assistance of K. Haushofer. Kaiser, Munich 1871.
• The geognostic structure of the Bavarian Alps , in: Schmid, Herman u. Karl Stieler: From German mountains. A memorial book from the Bavarian Mountains and the Salzkammergut (Appendix). Kröner, Stuttgart 1873 (illustrated).
• The constitution of natural silicates based on their geological relationships. According to the more recent views of chemistry . Vieweg, Braunschweig 1874.
• Crystallographic examinations . With 48 wood engravings. From the journal Krystallographie, Vol. VII. 1882. Engelmann, Leipzig 1882.
• Franz von Kobell, a memorandum by K. Haushofer . Publishing house of the KB Academy of Sciences, Munich 1884.
• Microscopic Reactions, a guide to recognizing various elements and compounds under the microscope; as a supplement to the methods of qualitative analysis by K. Haushofer. Vieweg, Braunschweig 1885.
• Guide to mineral determination . Vieweg, Braunschweig 1892.
• Goals and ways of studying at technical universities , in: Polytechnic school. Report on the k. Technical University of Munich for the academic year 1886–87. Printed by F. Straub, Munich 1887.
• About the tasks of the technical university in the field of general education. Inaugural address given on November 16, 1889. Munich 1890 . Report on the Royal Technical University of Munich 1889–1890.
• Review of the development of K. bayer. technical college in the first 25 years of its existence . Speech given by K. v. At the opening ceremony of the academic year on November 16, 1893. Haushofer. Kgl. Technical University of Munich, program 1893–94. Munich 1894.

literature

• Illustrirte Zeitung of February 2, 1895, Leipzig 1895 (portrait)
• Johann Christian Poggendorff (Hrsg.): Biographical-literary concise dictionary for the history of the exact sciences . Vol. 3, 1898, pp. 597-598.
• Theodor Mennacher: Adolf Lier and his work. Munich 1928, p. 11 (ill.).
• Hans Heyn: South German painting from the Bavarian highlands. Rosenheim [1980], p. 223.
• G. Grundmann: K. v. Haushofer (1839-1895), first mineralogist of the Royal Polytechnic in Munich , in: Geofa Fachmesse (Hrsg.): Official catalog of the 25th Munich Mineral Days "Who collects, makes history", Munich 1988, pp. 106-107.
• Siegfried Weiß : Art career aspiration. Painter, graphic artist, sculptor. Former students of the Maximiliansgymnasium in Munich from 1849 to 1918 . Allitera Verlag, Munich 2012. ISBN 978-3-86906-475-8 , pp. 82-84 (Fig.).

Individual evidence

1. ^ Annual report on the K. Maximilians-Gymnasium in Munich for the school year 1856/57.
2. ^ Kösener corps lists 1910, 172 , 238.
3. ↑ Hans-Ulrich Textor: Munich Francs at the Bergakademie Freiberg (1856-1861) . In: then and now. Yearbook of the Association for Corpsstudentische Geschichtsforschung eV 44 (1999), pp. 207–215.
4. ↑ Court and State Handbook of the Kingdom of Bavaria. 1892, p. 30.
5. ^ Member entry by Karl von Haushofer at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on February 5, 2016.

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