Reinhard Brauns

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Reinhard Anton Brauns (born August 20, 1861 in Eiterfeld , † January 28, 1937 in Bonn ) was a German mineralogist .

Life

Reinhard Braun's Mineralogy was Volume 29 of the Göschen Collection

His father, the Kassel public prosecutor Carl Braun, came from a family of civil servants . Brauns studied in Marburg from 1881 and was awarded a Dr. phil. doctorate, habilitated there in 1887 and then was initially a private lecturer . In 1893 he became a full professor of mineralogy and geology at the TH Karlsruhe , in 1895 at the University of Gießen and in 1904 a full professor of mineralogy and geology in Kiel . In 1895 he married Karoline Wirth, with whom he had two sons and a daughter. From 1907 to 1928 he was a full professor in Bonn.

He investigated optical anomalies of the crystals, worked on the synthetic production of precious stones and in 1908 co-founded the German Mineralogical Society. In 1926 he became an honorary member of the academies in Halle ( Leopoldina ) and Oslo. In 1935 he was awarded the Dr.agr.hc in Bonn.

Brauns died in 1937 as a result of a traffic accident. He was hit by a tram while crossing the street. His ashes were thrown into the Laacher See after his last will .

His collections are stored in the Mineralogical Museum Marburg and in the Museum Wiesbaden there is a historical presentation of minerals according to his didactic system from 1924.

Brauns was a member of the Corps Agraria Bonn. The mineral "Reinhardbraunsit" and a street in Cologne-Flittard were named after him.

Fonts

  • The optical anomalies of the crystals. Leipzig: S. Hirzel, 1891
  • The mineral kingdom . 440 pages, 82 plates. Stuttgart: Fritz Lehmann, Verlag, 1903,
  • Reinhard Brauns, Karl Franz Johann Chudoba : General mineralogy. 12., essential exp. Edition of the "Mineralogie". Berlin: de Gruyter, 1968
  • Reinhard Brauns, Karl Franz Chudoba: Special mineralogy. Unchangeable Reprint d. 11th, adult Edition d. Mineralogy 1964. Berlin [u. a.]: de Gruyter, 1979
  • On the cause of the anomalous birefringence of some regularly crystallizing salts : Marburg 1883
  • Reinhard Brauns: The minerals of the Lower Rhine volcanic areas, with special consideration of their formation and transformation, (With the support of the Rhenish Society for Scientific Research), With 40 panels, 3 portraits and 32 figures in the text, E. Schweizerbart'sche Verlagbuchhandlung (Erwin Nägele) , Stuttgart 1922
  • Instructions for determining the minerals by CWC Fuchs , eighth unchanged edition, revised by Reinhard Brauns, Dr. Phil., Go. Bergrat, Professor at the University of Bonn, with 27 illustrations in the text, published by Alfred Töpelmann (formerly J. Ricker), Giessen 1930,
  • The meteorite collection of the University of Bonn . In: Negotiations of the Natural History Association of the Prussian Rhineland and Westphalia , Vol. 83 (1926), pp. 160–168. (The catalog contains 879 meteorite samples from 353 different meteorites with a total mass of 450 kg)
  • Liquid crystals and living things. 170 papers from the New Yearbook and Centralblatt für Mineralogie, Geol. U. Pal. E. Schweizerbart'sche Verlagbuchhandlung, Stuttgart 1931

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Sarnighausen: Hannoversche Office lawyers families from 1715 to 1866 in Harsefeld . In: Stader Geschichts- und Heimatverein (Hrsg.): Stader yearbook . 2007, p. 93-118 .
  2. ^ Fischer, Walther: Brauns, Reinhard. 1955, accessed October 18, 2018 .
  3. ↑ Erwin Willmann (Ed.): Directory of the old Rudolstädter Corps students. (AH. List of the RSC.) , 1928 edition, No. 544
  4. ↑ R. Kurtz: Reinhardbraunsit. 2017, accessed October 18, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Brauns, Reinhard
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Brauns, Reinhard Anton (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German mineralogist
DATE OF BIRTH August 20, 1861
PLACE OF BIRTH Pus field
DATE OF DEATH January 28, 1937
Place of death Bonn