Theodor Liebisch

Theodor Liebisch (born April 29, 1852 in Breslau ; † February 9, 1922 in Berlin ) was a German mineralogist and crystallographer .

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Liebisch received his doctorate in geology in Breslau with a thesis on magmatites in glacial debris from Scandinavia. In 1875 he was curator at the Mineralogical Museum of the University of Berlin , where he became a private lecturer in mineralogy in 1878. In 1880 he was a professor in Breslau, in 1883 in Greifswald and in 1884 in Königsberg . In 1887 he was appointed professor to Göttingen, where Arnold Sommerfeld was his assistant for a time. He was also in close contact with physicists, which was particularly evident from his research on symmetry principles for the crystallographic classification of minerals. In 1891 his book Physikalische Kristallographie was published in Leipzig. He also chemically investigated the crystallization of minerals (on mixtures of chlorides and metals). In 1908 he became a professor at the University of Berlin. For 35 years he was co-editor of the New Yearbook for Mineralogy.

He was a member of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences and the Prussian Academy of Sciences .

With the mathematician Arthur Moritz Schoenflies and Otto Mügge he wrote the article Crystallography in the Encyclopedia of Mathematical Sciences .

The Liebisch twin, a twin crystal formation , is named after him.

Max Berek did his doctorate with him.

literature

• Karl Hans Wedepohl Theodor Liebisch , in Karl Arndt a. a. (Editor) Göttingen scholars: The Academy of Sciences in Göttingen

Web links

• Literature about Theodor Liebisch in the state bibliography MV
• Biography and list of publications, PDF file (39 kB)