Otto Erdmannsdörffer

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Otto Heinrich Erdmannsdörffer (born March 11, 1876 in Heidelberg ; † April 19, 1955 there ) was a German geologist and mineralogist.

Life

He was the son of the historian Bernhard Erdmannsdörffer and went to school in Heidelberg. He studied natural sciences and especially geology in Heidelberg and Strasbourg . In Strasbourg the geologists Hugo Bücking and Ernst Wilhelm Benecke were his teachers, in Heidelberg the physicist Georg Hermann Quincke , the mathematician Leo Koenigsberger , the geologist Karl Heinrich Rosenbusch and the chemist Theodor Curtius . In 1900 he received his doctorate at Rosenbusch in Heidelberg (with a thesis on the crystalline properties of the Black Forest) and in 1901 went to the Prussian Geological Institute, for which he mapped among other things in the Harz (sheets Harzburg, Wernigerode, St. Andreasberg). In 1908 he completed his habilitation in mineralogy and petrography at the University of Berlin under Carl Klein , where he became a private lecturer in mineralogy and petrography. In 1912 he became professor of mineralogy and petrography at the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz University in Hanover and in 1926 at the University of Heidelberg , where he was rector in 1931, headed the Mineral and Petrographic Institute, was dean of the natural science faculty three times, was rector in 1931/32 and retired in 1948 has been. Although he had already resigned from his chair, he made himself available to rebuild his Heidelberg institute after the war.

In addition to the Harz Mountains (including the Brocken massif ) and the Black Forest , he dealt with metamorphic rock in Macedonia , where he was a military geologist in World War I , and the formation of alkali rocks on Lake Natron in East Africa and, most recently, the crystalline of the Odenwald . The granite problem later played a central role in his research, i.e. hypotheses about the formation of granites and diorites . Overall, he was less theoretician, but preferred field studies and microscopic petrographic investigations.

He was editor of the Heidelberg contributions to mineralogy and petrography.

Honors

In 1925 he was elected a corresponding member of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences . He was a full member of the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences from 1926 and its secretary from 1935 to 1937.

Fonts

  • Basics of petrography , Enke 1924
  • with Walter Schriel , Fritz Dahlgrün : Geological Guide through the Harz , 2 volumes, Borntraeger, Geological Guide Collection, 1925
  • with Cl. Lebling, K. Leuchs and others: Southeast Macedonia and Asia Minor , Borntraeger 1925
  • About the Buchonit von Poppenhausen in der Rhön , Walter de Gruyter & Co., Berlin and Leipzig 1933

Some essays:

  • The Devonian igneous rocks and tuffs near Harzburg and their transformation in the Kontakthof of the Brocken massif, Jahrbuch Kgl. Prussia. Geol. Landesanst, Volume 25, 1904, pp. 1-74
  • About the construction and formation of the Brocken massif, Yearbook Kgl. Prussia. Geol. Landesanst, Volume 26, 1906, pp. 379-405
  • Contributions to the chemical-petrographic knowledge of the Brocken massif, Yearbook Kgl. Prussia. Geol. Landesanst, Volume 27, 1906, pp. 341-373.
  • The Silurian diabase of the Bruchberg field train, Jahrbuch Kgl. Prussia. Geol. Landesanst, Volume 29, 1908 pp. 1-22.
  • The Eckergneis in the Harz, Yearbook Kgl. Prussia. Geol. Landesanst, Volume 30, 1909, pp. 324-387.
  • The inclusions of the Brockengranit, Jahrbuch Kgl. Prussia. Geol. Landesanst, Volume 32, 1911, II, pp. 311-382.
  • The syenites of the Radau valley in the Harz as palingene eruptives, Sitzgsber. Heidelberg Akad. Wiss., Math.-naturwiss. Kl., 1930, pp. 1-61.
  • The role of anatexis, Sitzgsber. Heidelberg Akad. Wiss., Math.-naturwiss. Kl., 7. Abh., 1939, pp. 3-72.
  • The diorites of the Bergstrasse Odenwald and their origin, Heidelberger Beitr. Mineral. u. Petrogr., Vol. 1, 1948, pp. 37-85.
  • The development and current position of the granite problem, Heidelberger Beitr. Mineral. u. Petrogr., Volume 2, 1950, pp. 334-377.

literature

  • Hoenes: Otto Heinrich Erdmannsdörffer in memoriam, Heidelberg contributions to mineralogy and petrography, Volume 4, Issue 5, 1954/55, pp. I-XIV (with list of publications)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 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. 77.
  2. ^ Members of the HAdW since it was founded in 1909. Otto Heinrich Erdmannsdörffer. Heidelberg Academy of Sciences, accessed on July 12, 2016 .

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personal data
SURNAME Erdmannsdörffer, Otto
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Erdmannsdörffer, Otto Heinrich (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German geologist and mineralogist
DATE OF BIRTH March 11, 1876
PLACE OF BIRTH Heidelberg
DATE OF DEATH April 19, 1955
Place of death Heidelberg