Richard Beck (geologist)

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Carl Richard Beck (born November 24, 1858 in Niederpfannenstiel , † August 18, 1919 in Freiberg ) was a German geologist .

Life

Richard Beck spent his childhood in Niederpfannenstiel, a district of the city of Aue . From 1872 he attended the grammar school in Zwickau , in 1876 he switched to the Leipzig Nikolaigymnasium , where he passed the school leaving examination in 1879 . He then took up a degree in botany in Freiburg im Breisgau , and in October 1879 went back to Leipzig, where he continued his studies. Beck was enthusiastic about nature, collected fossils and made herbariums. He also read the works of the natural scientist Ernst Haeckel , from whose ideas the principle monismespecially appealing - all development can be traced back to a uniform basic principle. Beck's teachers included Hermann Credner and Ferdinand Zirkel . In 1883 he received his doctorate , after which he worked for twelve years at the Saxon Geological State Institute, where he primarily dealt with the geological mapping of Saxony.

In spring 1895 Richard Beck took over the professorship for geology, deposit theory and petrification theory at the Bergakademie Freiberg as the successor to Alfred Wilhelm Stelzner . In the following years he wrote his best-known work Doctrine of Ore Deposits , which was published three times and was translated into English and French. He went on numerous study trips, including a. to Canada, South Africa and Finland. From 1911 to 1913 he was the rector of the Bergakademie.

Richard Beck died after a short illness at the age of 61 in Freiberg.

Awards

  • 1886 honorary member of the Natural Research Society in Leipzig
  • 1909 honorary member of the American Institute of Mining Engineers
  • 1909 honorary member of the Geological Society of South Africa
  • 1909 honorary doctorate from the University of Geneva
  • 1911 Honorary doctorate from the Montanist University in Leoben
  • 1913 Honorary Doctorate from the University of Toronto
  • 1916 Secret mountain ridge
  • 1918 full member of the Saxon Academy of Sciences in Leipzig

Fonts (selection)

  • The Oligocene of Mittweida with special attention to its flora . Leipzig, Diss., 1883
  • Doctrine of the ore deposits . Borntraeger Berlin, 1901 (2nd edition 1903; 3rd edition 1909)

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b legwork of the Press Department of the Town Hall Aue, May 2002 Geitner, Beck, Lotter, Winkler, ... .
personal data
SURNAME Beck, Richard
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Beck, Carl Richard; Beck, Karl Richard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German geologist
DATE OF BIRTH November 24, 1858
PLACE OF BIRTH Low pan handle
DATE OF DEATH August 18, 1919
Place of death Freiberg