Karl Schlossmacher

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Karl Heinrich Schlossmacher (born July 10, 1887 , † November 13, 1980 ) was a German mineralogist and gemologist .

Life

Schlossmacher studied geology in Marburg, where he received his doctorate in 1911 (The igneous rocks of the Habichtswald near Kassel and its foothills). From 1919 to 1926 he was at the Prussian Geological Institute . Among other things, he mapped in Grävenwiesbach (geological map 1: 25,000) and Homburg vor der Höhe . From 1955 he headed the branch of the Institute for Mineralogy and Petrography of the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz in Idar-Oberstein, which dealt with gemstone research.

He was honorary president of the German Society for Gemstone Studies (DGemG), which founded the Schlossmacher Foundation in 1969 (today the German Gemstone Research Foundation, DSEF). The rare mineral lockmakerite is named after him.

Fonts

  • with Max Bauer: Gemstone customer. 3rd edition, Tauchnitz, Leipzig 1932
  • The practice of determining gemstones, series of publications by the Reich Guild Association of the Jewelers, Goldsmiths and Silversmiths. Volume 1, Klambt, Neurode am Eulengebirge 1937.
  • Gemstones and pearls. 4th edition, Swiss beard 1965
  • Guide to the exact gemstone determination. Swiss beard 1950
  • Geological map of Hessen. 2nd edition, Wiesbaden 1983

literature

  • K. Schlossmacher on his 70th birthday (= magazine of the German Society for Gemstone Studies, special issue). Idar-Oberstein, 1957
  • H. Bank: In memoriam Professor Dr. Karl Schlossmacher. (7/10/1887-13/11/1980). In: Journal of the German Gemological Society. Volume 29, Idar-Oberstein 1980, pp. 123–125.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ History of geosciences, University of Mainz .
  2. ↑ Schlossmacherite, classicgems.net
  3. ↑ Mindat
personal data
SURNAME Locksmith, Karl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schlossmacher, Karl Heinrich (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German mineralogist and gemologist
DATE OF BIRTH July 10, 1887
DATE OF DEATH November 13, 1980