Michael Stark (geologist)

Michael Stark (born December 6, 1877 in Tuschkau , † December 29, 1953 in Wolkersdorf in the Weinviertel ) was an Austrian geologist, mineralogist and petrograph.

Stark first studied botany in Vienna and, under the influence of Friedrich Becke , turned to mineralogy and petrography. He became Becke's assistant and completed his habilitation in petrography in Vienna. In 1910 he became an associate professor and in 1912 a full professor at the University of Chernivtsi. During the First World War he was an officer and was taken prisoner by the Russians in Siberia and later in Kazan, where he was able to work scientifically. In 1918 he became a professor at the German University in Prague. In 1936/37 he was rector there. In 1937 he was elected a member of the Leopoldina . He retired in 1944 and was expelled from Prague in 1945. He lived in poor conditions in Wolkersdorf and only shortly before his death received the announcement that he would be granted a pension.

As a geologist and petrograph he dealt particularly with the Euganeen and Hohe Tauern (like his teacher Becke and his friend Leopold Kober ), but also with Bohemia.

Fonts

• Preliminary report on geological surveys in the eastern Sonnblick area and on the relationships between the slate envelope of the central gneiss, reports from the meetings of the Kaiserliche Akad. Wiss. Vienna, Volume 121, 1912
• Geological-petrographic recordings of the Euganeans, Tschermaks mineralog.-petrogr. Mitt., 27, 1909, 399-588
• The Augite in the rocks of the Euganeen, New Yearbook Mineralogie etc., Beilagen, 55, 1926, 1-35
• Transformation processes in rocks of the Bohemian Forest, Lotos Prag, Volume 76, 1928, 1-77
• Petrographic-geological questions about Pfraumberg-Haid. Contributions to the educational history of the rock structure of the northern Bohemian Forest and its foreland, New Yearbook f. Mineralogy etc., supplement 61 A, 1930, 321-402
• Deep rock areas in the center of the Euganeen, New Yearbook Mineralogie etc., Supplement 71 A, 1936, 363-457
• Calcium silicate rocks near Galzignano in the Euganeen, New Yearbook Mineralogie etc., Supplements 71 A, 1936, 342-362
• Stages of development in crystalline slates (green slates) of the Klammkalk-Radstädter series in the Arl and Gastein valleys, reports from the Akad. Wiss. Vienna, Math.-Naturwiss. Class, 148, 1939, 41
• Porphyroids and related eruptives from the Groß-Arl and the Gasteiner Valley, reports from the Akad. Wiss. Vienna, Math.-Naturwiss. Class, 149, 1940, 13th grade
• Basaltic rocks of the Euganeans, Tschermaks mineralog.-petrogr. Mitt., Vol. 54, 1942, 123-177, 277-372, Vol. 55, 1943, 137-172, 277-372
• The green slate of the limestone mica slate-green slate series of the Grossarl and Gastein valleys, meeting reports Akad. Wiss. Vienna, Math.-Naturwiss. Class, 159, 1950, 184
• Andesitic rocks together with lamprophyric rocks of the Euganeans, New Yearbook Mineralogie etc., Abh., 83, 1952, 151-312
• Petrographic Provinces, Advances in Mineralogy, Volume 4, 1912, pp. 251-336
• Pleochroic (radioactive) courtyards, their distribution in rocks and their variability, Chemie der Erde, Volume 10, 1936, 566-630

literature

• Obituary by H. Leitmeier in Tschermaks Mineralogische und Petrographische Mitteilungen, 1954