Martin Websky

Christian Friedrich Martin Websky (born July 17, 1824 in Nieder-Wüstegiersdorf , Silesia, † November 27, 1886 in Berlin ) was a German miner and mineralogist .

After practical training in Silesian mines and metallurgical plants, he studied in Berlin, Freiberg and Bonn from 1846. He then worked in Reichenstein (gold removal of the arsenic burns) and became a mountain trainee in 1850. In 1851 he became a member of the Waldenburg Mining Authority, in 1853 a mountain master and lecturer in Tarnowitz, in 1856 a mountain assessor and in 1861 Oberbergrat in Breslau. In 1865 he said goodbye and devoted himself to the mineralogy that had already been cultivated with preference. He completed his habilitation in Breslau, became an associate professor at the University of Breslau in 1868, and in 1874 went to Berlin as the successor to Gustav Rose , where, as in Breslau, he made great contributions to the mineralogical collection, crystallography and mineral chemistry.

In 1863 he introduced the term vicinal surfaces in crystallography. He took numerous measurements on crystals and constructed an entrance slit named after him (Websky slit) for the optical goniometer (reflection goniometer ).

In 1875 he was accepted as a full member of the Prussian Academy of Sciences . Since 1882 he was a corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Sciences in Saint Petersburg . In 1883 he was elected a member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina and in 1884 a corresponding member of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences .

Fonts

Mineral species according to the values assumed and found for the specific gravity of the same: an auxiliary book on determining mineralogy. Breslau: Shepherd, 1868.
Use of linear projection to calculate the crystals. In: Rose. G., Elements of Crystallography. Vol. 3. Berlin 1873.

literature

Lexicon of natural scientists. Berlin 2004.
Wilhelm von Gümbel: Websky, Christian Friedrich Martin . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 41, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1896, p. 363 f.

Individual evidence

^ Members of the previous academies. Martin Websky. Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities , accessed on June 26, 2015 .

^ Foreign members of the Russian Academy of Sciences since 1724. Christian Friedrich Martin Websky. Russian Academy of Sciences, accessed August 9, 2015 (in Russian).

^ List of members Leopoldina, Martin Websky

↑ Holger Krahnke: The members of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen 1751-2001 (= Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Philological-Historical Class. Volume 3, Vol. 246 = Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Mathematical-Physical Class. Episode 3, vol. 50). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2001, ISBN 3-525-82516-1 , p. 253.

personal data
SURNAME	Websky, Martin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German mineralogist
DATE OF BIRTH	July 17, 1824
PLACE OF BIRTH	Nieder-Wüstegiersdorf , Silesia
DATE OF DEATH	November 27, 1886
Place of death	Berlin

[1] Members of the previous academies. Martin Websky. Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities , accessed on June 26, 2015 .

[2] Foreign members of the Russian Academy of Sciences since 1724. Christian Friedrich Martin Websky. Russian Academy of Sciences, accessed August 9, 2015 (in Russian).

[3] List of members Leopoldina, Martin Websky

[4] Holger Krahnke: The members of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen 1751-2001 (= Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Philological-Historical Class. Volume 3, Vol. 246 = Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Mathematical-Physical Class. Episode 3, vol. 50). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2001, ISBN 3-525-82516-1 , p. 253.