Martin Okrusch
Martin Okrusch (born December 3, 1934 in Guben ) is a German mineralogist and petrologist .
Martin Okrusch was a student in the school community Wickersdorf near Saalfeld / Saale in the Thuringian Forest in 1945 and switched from there to school in Guben . From there he went to West Berlin in 1953 after being excluded from high school for political reasons . From 1954 he studied geosciences at the Free University of Berlin and from 1956 mineralogy (with geology and physical chemistry as minor subjects) at the University of Würzburg . In 1961 he received his doctorate and in 1968 he completed his habilitation in Würzburg, where he was an assistant at the Mineralogical Institute from 1962. After a research stay at the University of California, Berkeley in 1968/69 (as a scholarship holder of the German Research Foundation and then as Visiting Assistant Professor), he was professor at the University of Cologne from 1970 and full professor and director of the Mineralogical-Petrographic Institute at the TU Braunschweig from 1972 . From 1982 he was professor and director of the Institute for Mineralogy and Crystal Structure at the University of Würzburg. In 1982/83 and 1986 he was Dean of the Faculty of Geosciences there. From 1996 to 2000 he was the spokesperson for the Graduate School for Community Geoscientific Research in Africa . He retired in 2000, but is still active in research.
He deals with the petrology and geochemistry of metamorphic and igneous rocks and of ore deposits. Together with Siegfried Matthes (1913–1999) he wrote a textbook on mineralogy.
The regional focus of his research was the Hellenids (Cyclades, Samos, Crete) in Greece, Namibia (Damara Orogen, Kaoko belt) and the Central German Crystalline Sill ( Spessart , Odenwald , Franconian Forest , Upper Palatinate Forest , East Bavarian Basement Mountains). He was involved in the continental deep drilling program exploring the crystalline basement of Bavaria.
In 2008 he received the Abraham Gottlob Werner Medal of the German Mineralogical Society, of which he was chairman in 1988/89. In 1994 he received the Friedrich Schiller Medal from the University of Jena. In 2004 he became a Fellow of the Geological Society of South Africa. In 2015 he became an honorary member of the German Mineralogical Society.
The mineral okruschit was named in his honor (by Joachim Lorenz et al.).
Fonts
- with Klaus-Peter Kelber : The geological exploration and mapping of the Würzburg city area from its inception until 1925. Mainfränkische booklets, 105, Würzburg 2006, pp 71-115
- with Siegfried Matthes : Mineralogy. An introduction to special mineralogy, petrology and deposit science , Springer Verlag, 8th edition 2009
- with Joachim Lorenz , Gerd Geyer : Spessart , Geological Guide Collection, Volume 106, Borntraeger Verlag 2011
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Student directory of the Free School Community Wickersdorf. In: Archives of the German youth movement , Ludwigstein Castle near Witzenhausen in Hesse.
- ↑ http://www.springer.com/springer+spektrum/geowwissenschaften/mineralogie+%26+petrographie/book/978-3-642-34659-0
- ↑ Okruschit, Mineralienatlas
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | OK, Martin |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German mineralogist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 3, 1934 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Guben |