Heinrich Fischer (mineralogist)

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Leopold Heinrich Fischer (born December 19, 1817 in Freiburg im Breisgau ; † February 2, 1886 there ) was a doctor, mineralogist and geologist .

Life

Heinrich Fischer studied medicine and natural sciences in Freiburg and Vienna , practiced as a doctor and at the same time completed his habilitation as a private lecturer in mineralogy and zoology at the University of Freiburg , where he became an extraordinary professor in 1854 and a full professor of geology and mineralogy in 1859 and director of the mineralogical- geological museum was appointed. His first work was in the entomological field, later he devoted himself more to mineralogy and was one of the first to use the microscope in this science. At the beginning of the 1870s he founded the prehistoric-ethnographic museum with Alexander Ecker and examined stone axes, stone amulets and stone idols from all peoples. In 1871 he was a founding member of the Upper Rhine Geological Association . In 1882 Fischer was appointed a member of the Leopoldina .

Fonts

  • Contributions to the history of the orthoptheric study (1849) online
  • Orthoptera europaea , (Leipzig 1853) online
  • Clavis of silicates , (Leipzig 1864);
  • Chronological overview of the gradual introduction of microscopy into the study of mineralogy, petrography and paleontology , (Freiburg 1868)
  • Critical microscopic-mineralogical studies , (Freiburg 1869–73)
  • Mineralogy as an auxiliary science for archeology , (Braunschweig 1877)
  • Nephrite and jadeite according to their mineralogical properties as well as their prehistoric and ethnographic importance: Introduction of mineralogy into the study of archeology; With 131 woodcuts and 2 chromolithograph. Tafeln , (2nd edition, Stuttgart 1880)

literature

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personal data
SURNAME Fischer, Heinrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Fischer, Leopold Heinrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German mineralogist and geologist
DATE OF BIRTH December 19, 1817
PLACE OF BIRTH Freiburg in Breisgau
DATE OF DEATH February 2, 1886
Place of death Freiburg in Breisgau