Max Reinhard

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Max Reinhard also Max Reinhard-Knoerr (* July 27, 1882 in Bern , † August 17, 1974 in Binningen ), entitled to reside in Röthenbach in the Emmental , was a Swiss mineralogist , petrograph and university professor .

Life

Berne-born Max Reinhardt, son of primary school teacher Philippe Reinhard and his spouse Marie-born Ammon, turned to the receipt of federal Matura studying Earth Sciences at the University of Geneva to 1906 he graduated from the Federal Institute of Technology Zurich the academic degree of Dr. phil.

In 1904 Max Reinhard took over an assistant position to Ludovic Mrazek at the Mineralogical-Petrographic Institute of the University of Bucharest , where he completed his habilitation in 1910 as a private lecturer in the subjects of mineralogy and petrography. From 1911 he was employed as a petrolatum specialist in Sumatra , Java , Borneo , Colombia and Venezuela on behalf of an oil company . After his return to Switzerland in 1916, Reinhard received a position as a research assistant at the Laboratoire minéralogie at the University of Geneva, where he was promoted to associate professor in 1920 .

In 1923, Max Reinhard was appointed full professor of mineralogy and petrography at the University of Basel , succeeding the late Carl Schmidt . Reinhard, who held the dean's office twice and the rector's office in 1943 , retired in 1952 . In addition, he held a visiting professorship at Durham University in 1930 . Max Reinhard, on whose initiative the Swiss Mineralogical and Petrographic Society was founded in 1924, carried out fundamental investigations using optical methods to determine the chemistry of the feldspars . In 1934 Max Reinhard was awarded an honorary doctorate from the University of Geneva in recognition of his scientific merits .

Max Reinhard was married to Nora nee Knoerr. The son Toni came from this marriage . Max Reinhard died in Binningen in the summer of 1974 just after he had turned 92.

Publications

  • The crystalline slates of the Fagaras Mountains in the Romanian Carpathians, post- doctoral thesis , C. Göbl, Bucharest, 1910
  • Geological observations over the crystalline schists of the Eastern Carpathians, 1927
  • About the thickness of the thin sections of rock and the mineral components found in them, 1927
  • Universal rotary table methods; Introduction to basic crystal-optical terms and the determination of plagioclase, Verlag von B. Wepf & Cie., Basel, 1931
  • About the origin of granite: Rector's speech given on November 20, 1943, Helbing & Lichtenhahn, Basel, 1943
  • The geological conditions of the 2nd massage tunnel near Lugano, Basel, 1956
  • About the basement of the Sottoceneri in southern Ticino and the dike rocks that occur in it, Kümmerly & Frey, Bern, 1964

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SURNAME Reinhard, Max
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Reinhard-Knoerr, Max
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss mineralogist, petrograph and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH July 27, 1882
PLACE OF BIRTH Bern
DATE OF DEATH 17th August 1974
Place of death Binningen