Karl-Hermann Scheumann

Karl-Hermann Scheumann (born February 25, 1881 in Metz , † April 28, 1964 in Bad Hersfeld ) was a German geologist and mineralogist .

Life

Scheumann grew up in Dresden. He was gifted in drawing and studied at the Dresden Art Academy before studying natural sciences and especially geology in Leipzig from 1905 to 1909. In 1913 he received his doctorate there in mineralogy (petrographic examinations on rocks of the Polzen area in northern Bohemia) and was there, after military service in World War I, assistant to Friedrich Rinne . In 1925 he completed his habilitation and was then a private lecturer in Leipzig. In 1925 he moved to the University of Giessen as a full professor of mineralogy and in 1926 to the Technical University of Berlin . From 1930 he was a full and from 1945 corresponding member of the Saxon Academy of Sciences in Leipzig. From 1928 he was Professor of Mineralogy and Petrography at the University of Leipzig and from 1946 Professor at the University of Bonn , where he retired in 1951. In that year he married Gertrud Scheumann .

Honors

In 1948 he received the Hans Stille Medal . In 1948 he became an honorary member of the German Mineralogical Society. In 1956 he received the Great Federal Cross of Merit . In 1959 he received an honorary doctorate from the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main . In 1957 he received the Medal of Merit from the Geological Research Institute in Finland.

Fonts

• Petrography, 2 volumes, Wiesbaden, Dieterich, 1948

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Genealogical entry , professor catalog University of Leipzig, pdf
2. ↑ Walther Killy; Rudolf Vierhaus: Scheumann, Karl Hermann. In Deutsche Biographische Enzyklopädie, Poethen -Schlüter , Volume 8, KG Saur, Munchen 2007, p. 836.