Vojtěch Rosický

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Vojtěch Rosický ( October 30, 1880 in Prague , Austria-Hungary - February 9, 1942 in Mauthausen ) was a Czechoslovak mineralogist and professor at Masaryk University in Brno. He founded the Mineralogical-Petrological Institute of Masaryk University. During the German occupation of Czechoslovakia , he and other Brno university lecturers resisted the protectorate regime and was arrested for it in December 1941. Due to insufficient nutrition, torture and the harsh winter, he died in Mauthausen concentration camp in February 1942 .

Life

Vojtěch Rosický was the son of the natural scientist František Vilém Rosický, an author of school and botany books and provincial school inspector of Bohemia, and his wife Marie Rosická, nee Webrová, a noblewoman. After attending grammar school in Prague (1890–1899), he studied at Charles University , wrote a dissertation on minerals and was awarded a doctorate in philosophy on January 16, 1904. After graduating, he received two research grants - first he went to the University of Munich for 1907/1908 , then to the University of Heidelberg in 1908/1909 . Back in Prague he taught at a grammar school until 1913. In 1910 he received his habilitation at the Charles University (habilitation on mineralogy and petrography ), in 1913 he completed his habilitation on the same subject at the Czech Technical University in Prague . In 1919 he was appointed associate professor for mineralogy and petrography at Charles University, in 1920 he was appointed full professor at Masaryk University in Brno , where he founded the Institute of Mineralogy. In 1922 he was dean of the Faculty of Science for one year and in 1925 he was rector of Masaryk University for one year.

On July 22nd, 1911 he married Františka Rosická, née Sobková. With her he had two children: Vojtěch Rosický (born on January 1, 1913, died on April 14, 1939) and Ivan Rosicky (born on November 27, 1916).

Rosický was a member of the Czech Academy of Sciences and Arts (ČAVU), the Royal Bohemian Society of Sciences (KČSN), the Mineralogical Society of America , he was represented in Sokol I and in a number of scientific societies.

After the German occupation of Czechoslovakia , Rosický joined the resistance movement of Brno university teachers. He was arrested for this on December 12, 1941 and imprisoned in Brno in the Kounicovy koleje, a building that was originally a student dormitory and had served as a Gestapo prison and place of execution since 1940 . In January 1942, he and other Brno professors were deported to Mauthausen concentration camp. He died there on February 9, 1942 due to insufficient nutrition, torture and the harsh winter.

His cenotaph is in the Řečkovický cemetery in Brno.

Almost at the same time and independently of Karl Busz (in 1912), Rosický described a new mineral that he called preslite . Busz named the mineral after its type of locality , this designation prevailed.

Publications (selection)

  • A contribution to the morphology of Miargyrite , 1912
  • Preslite, a new mineral from Tsumeb in German South West Africa , 1912
  • Contributions to the petrography of the Central Bohemian Granite Massif , 1917
  • On the petrography of the Friedeberg granite massif in Silesia , 1933
  • On the relationship between the physical properties of hydrates and their water content , 1935

Honors

Memorials

Stumbling block for Vojtěch Rosický

The following memorials were erected for Vojtěch Rosický:

  • He is remembered at the memorial to the victims of World War II in the Řečkovický cemetery in Brno.
  • On October 17, 1947, a monument to teachers of the Faculty of Science in Masaryk University was unveiled.
  • On November 23, 1947, a memorial plaque was unveiled in Sokol Brno I for the victims of World War II.
  • On May 6, 1950, a memorial plaque for the victims of World War II was unveiled among the students, staff and teachers of the faculty in the Medical Faculty of Masaryk University.
  • On October 30, 1970 a memorial plaque was unveiled on the building of the Mineralogical Institute of Masaryk University.
  • On September 17, 2014, Gunter Demnig laid a stumbling block in Drobného 315/54 in Brno .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of the original from March 27, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.gbn.cz
  2. ^ Vojtěch Rosický: Preslite, a new mineral from Tsumeb in German South West Africa, 1912
  3. ↑ Doelter: The elements and compounds of: Ti, Zr, Sn, Th, Nb, Ta, N, P, As, Sb, Bi, V and H, Volume 3, Part 1, p. 446
personal data
SURNAME Rosický, Vojtěch
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Czechoslovak mineralogist and university professor, resistance fighter against the Nazi regime
DATE OF BIRTH October 30, 1880
PLACE OF BIRTH Prague , Austria-Hungary
DATE OF DEATH February 9, 1942
Place of death Mauthausen