Rudolf Scharizer

Rudolf Scharizer (born April 1, 1859 in Freistadt ; † December 14, 1935 there ) was an Austrian mineralogist and petrograph .

Life

Scharizer was born the son of a land registry and attended grammar school in Freistadt. He studied mineralogy , geology and chemistry at the University of Vienna from 1877 to 1880 and was a demonstrator with the mineralogist Albrecht Schrauf . In 1882 he passed the teaching examination for grammar schools ( mathematics , physics , natural history ) and a probationary year at the academic grammar school in Vienna . In 1883 he was at Schrauf and Gustav Tschermak to Dr. phil. doctorate ( Der Basalt von Ottendorf in Austrian-Silesia ), became assistant at the Mineralogical Museum of the University of Vienna and in 1886 private lecturer for chemical mineralogy at the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences in Vienna , where he qualified as a professor in 1885 . In 1888 he became a private lecturer in mineralogy at the University of Vienna and undertook a study trip through Europe in 1888/1889. In 1891 he became associate professor and in 1894 professor at the University of Chernivtsi , where he was dean in 1896/1897 and rector in 1902/1903. In 1905 he became an honorary boy of the Arminia Czernowitz fraternity . In 1909 he became a full professor at the University of Graz , where he was rector in 1916/1917. In 1930 he retired and dealt with local history research .

He dealt primarily with iron sulfate minerals and the paragenesis of minerals and wrote a textbook of mineralogy and geology for middle schools.

In 1895 he became a member of the Leopoldina and in 1927 an honorary member of the Natural Science Association of Styria . In 1921 he became a councilor .

Fonts

• The iron sulfates. In: Cornelio August Doelter , Hans Leitmeier: Handbuch der Mineralchemie. Theodor Steinkopff, Dresden / Leipzig 1929.
• with Franz Angel : Basic features of mineral paragenesis. J. Springer, Vienna 1932.
• Textbook of mineralogy and geology for the upper classes. 1892 (many new editions until 1919).

literature

• Haymo Heritsch :  Scharizer Rudolf. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 10, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1994, ISBN 3-7001-2186-5 , p. 42 f. (Direct links on p. 42 , p. 43 ).
• Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume I: Politicians. Sub-Volume 5: R – S. Winter, Heidelberg 2002, ISBN 3-8253-1256-9 , p. 201.
• Franz Pertlik: A competence dispute between Professors Gustav Tschermak and Albrecht Schrauf: The assessment of Rudolf Scharizer's dissertation at the University of Vienna. In: Joannea Mineralogie , No. 4, 2007, pp. 127-139 ( PDF; 3.9 MB ).

Individual evidence

1. ^ List of members Leopoldina, Rudolf Scharizer