Max Belowsky
Max Belowsky (born August 13, 1865 in Berlin ; † July 7, 1945 ) was a German mineralogist , curator and university professor .
Life
He was the son of the factory owner J. Belowsky and his wife Marie nee Koch. After graduating from high school, he studied general natural sciences, zoology, botany, physics and chemistry, especially mineralogy and geology in Berlin. In 1905 he completed his habilitation at the Berlin University in mineralogy and petrography and from then on also worked as a private lecturer .
He got his first job in 1891 as a laborer at the Mineralogical-Petrographic Institute and Museum of the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität zu Berlin . In 1895 he became second assistant there and in 1898 first assistant. In 1901 he was appointed curator of the Mineralogical-Petrographic Institute and Museum of the University of Berlin. In 1930 he retired.
In 1921 Max Belowsky was appointed associate professor for mineralogy and petrography at the Friedrich Wilhelms University in Berlin. He was a member of the German Geological Society, the German Mineralogical Society, the Society for Geography, the Austrian and German Alpine Association, the Society for Bibliography in Weimar, the Berlin Bibliophile Evening and the Fontane Evening.
A few weeks before his 80th birthday, he died in a traffic accident.
family
Belowsky married Marie, the daughter of the Berlin factory owner G. Nönnig, on April 29, 1915 in Berlin.
Fonts (selection)
- The high mountains of the Republic of Ecuador. Petrographic surveys , part 1: West Cordillera, delivery 1: Tulcan to Escaleras mountains. Asher, 1892
- The rocks of the Ecuadorian Western Cordillera from Tulcan to the Escaleras Mountains (reprint of the 1892 edition) Hansebooks GmbH, Norderstedt 2016.
- with Richard Herz, Ernst Elich, Adolf Klautzsch and Alfred Prentice Young: Travels in South America. Bd. I Eastern Cordillera. The mountains of the Ibarra Basin and the Cayambe; Vol. 2 The Cotopaxi and the surrounding volcanic mountains: Pasochoa, Rumiñahui, Sincholagua and Quilindaña , 1896–1902.
- Contribution to the petrography of western North Greenland . In: Journal of the German Geological Society, Vol. 58, 1905, pp. 17ff.
literature
- Herrmann AL Degener : Degeners Who is it? . Xth edition, Berlin 1935, p. 91.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ New Yearbook for Mineralogy, Geology and Paleontology. Monthly booklets: Geology, Palaeontology , Part 2, 1948, p. 158.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Belowsky, Max |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German mineralogist, curator and university professor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 13, 1865 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Berlin |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 7, 1945 |