Maximilian Schuster (mineralogist)
Maximilian Josef Schuster (born May 7, 1856 in Uničov , † November 14, 1887 in Vienna ) was an Austrian mineralogist and petrograph .
Life
Maximilian (Max) Josef Schuster was born on May 7, 1856 as the son of the secondary school teacher Josef Schuster and his wife Marie Schuster, née Zanger, in Mährisch-Neustadt (today Uničov , Czech Republic ). He completed his school career in 1875 at the State High School in Olomouc with honors.
In October of the same year he enrolled at the University of Vienna to first study natural history, mathematics and physics for teaching. Due to illness, he did not take the exams for this until 1881. He soon began to study mineralogy and petrography with Gustav Tschermak , whose assistant he became. Here he met his friend and fellow student Friedrich Becke , who married his younger sister Wilhelmine (Minna) Schuster in 1882. In the same year Max Schuster did his doctorate at Tschermak in mineralogy “ On the optical orientation of the plagioclase"Is the title of his thesis, and with his habilitation he achieved the status of a private lecturer in mineralogy and petrography at the University of Vienna.
He worked petrographically on basalt tuff and eclogite and mineralogically on the crystal optics of tridymite and feldspars as well as z. B. the surface texture of danburite . His investigation of the dust collected in Klagenfurt after the muddy rain on October 14, 1885, also attracted attention . In 1885 he was elected a member of the Leopoldina .
Schuster suffered from severe depression during his studies. On November 14, 1887, he put an end to his life and threw himself out of a window of his apartment on the third floor of Josefsgasse 5 in Vienna.
literature
- T. Cernajsek: Schuster, Max (Maximilian Joseph) (1856-1887), mineralogist. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 11, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1999, ISBN 3-7001-2803-7 , p. 395.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d e Franz Pertlik (2014): Maximilian Josef Schuster (1856-1887): Mineraloge and petrograph, university lecturer and scientist at the University of Vienna , In: Mitt. Österr. Miner. Ges. , 160, pp. 109–124 ( PDF (925 kB) )
- ↑ Member entry of Maximilian Schuster (with picture) at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on March 22, 2016.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Schuster, Maximilian |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Schuster, Maximilian Josef (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian mineralogist and petrograph |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 7, 1856 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Uničov |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 14, 1887 |
| Place of death | Vienna |