Wolf von Engelhardt

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Wolf Jürgen Baron von Engelhardt (born January 27 . Jul / 9. February  1910 greg. In Yuriev (now Tartu, Estonia) (then Russian Empire); † 4. December 2008 in Tübingen ) was a German geologist and mineralogist .

Studies and academic career

Baron von Engelhardt was a member of the Baltic noble Engelhardt family . He is the father of Dietrich von Engelhardt .

In the years from 1929 to 1935 he took up a degree in natural sciences, with a focus on geology, mineralogy and chemistry at the universities of Halle, Berlin and Göttingen. In Halle he became a member of the Corps Guestphalia . He received his doctorate on September 18, 1935 under the mineralogist Victor Moritz Goldschmidt on the subject of the geochemistry of barium .

From 1935 to 1938 he worked as a research assistant at the Mineralogical Institute of the University of Rostock . On July 12, 1939, he obtained his habilitation at the University of Göttingen ( disintegration and structure of minerals in north German bleaching earth forest soils ). From 1939 to 1944 he was scientific assistant to the mineralogist Carl Wilhelm Correns at the Mineralogical Institute of the University of Göttingen . From 1939 he was also employed as a private lecturer at the University of Göttingen.

He was appointed lecturer in 1944. When he was represented at a chair in 1944, he was appointed associate professor. From 1947 to 1952 he headed the research and development department at the Elwerath oil company in Hanover . From 1952 to 1957 he was able to work as an honorary professor at the University of Göttingen, and from November 1, 1957, he took over the management of the Mineralogical-Petrographic Institute of the University of Tübingen as a full professor . Engelhardt was rector of the University of Tübingen from 1963 to 1964. In 1978 he retired . He then continued his journalistic work in his field of mineralogy.

Political and military activities

From 1933 to 1934 and in 1939 he was a member of the SA . From 1937 to 1942 he was temporarily active in the military, after which he served in the SD from 1942 to 1945 . From 1940 he was a member of the Reichsdozentenschaft , a subdivision of the NSDAP .

From 1942 he belonged to the National Socialist German Lecturer Association and the National Socialist Altherrenbund .

Act

Engelhardt dealt with crystal symmetry and crystal growth, with geochemistry and the petrology of sedimentary rocks as well as particularly intensively with meteorite impacts and their mineralogical-petrographic traces such as impactites . He examined in this context, the Ries and Ries event and was principal investigator of NASA in the investigation of lunar rocks, which he already at the 11 Apollo examined mission. He was active in various international bodies such as the International Association of Planetology. He was also a science historian who dealt in particular with Johann Wolfgang von Goethe . In 1970 he published Goethe's scientific writings in the Leopoldina edition. With Helmut Hölder he wrote a history of mineralogy and geology at the University of Tübingen and with Jörg Zimmermann a methodology of geosciences, which was also translated into English.

honors and awards

Fonts (selection)

  • on geology and mineralogy:
    • The origin of sediments and sedimentary rocks. 2nd Edition. Swiss beard 1977.
    • The pore space of the sediments. Springer Verlag, Berlin 1960.
    • Contributions in Hans Füchtbauer (Ed.): Sediment-Petrologie. 3 volumes, Schweizerbart, Stuttgart 1964, 1970, 1973, English translation: * Sedimentary Petrology. London 1974.
    • with Jörg Zimmermann: Theory of Geoscience. Schöningh, Paderborn 1982, English translation: Theory of Earth Sciences. Cambridge University Press, 1988.
    • The geochemistry of barium . In: Chemistry of the Earth. Volume 10, Issue 2, 1936, pp. 187–246, G. Fischer, Jena 1936 (dissertation)
    • with Kurt Lemcke, Hans Füchtbauer and others: Geological and sediment petrographic investigations in the western part of the unfolded molasse of the southern German Alpine foothills. Geological yearbook, supplements, volume 11, State Institute for Soil Research, Hanover 1953.
    • with Friedrich Hörz: high-pressure glasses in the Nördlinger Ries . Springer Verlag, Berlin 1964
    • The formation of sediments and sedimentary rocks. Swiss beard, Stuttgart 1973.
    • Problems of Cosmic Mineralogy. Tübingen 1963 (Rector's speech)
  • History of Science:
    • with Hansmartin Decker-Hauff: Sources on the founding history of the Faculty of Natural Sciences in Tübingen. 1859-1863. JCB Mohr, Tuebingen 1963.
    • with Helmut Hölder: Mineralogy, geology and paleontology at the University of Tübingen from the beginning to the present. JCB Mohr, Tuebingen 1977.
  • Others:
    • What does that mean and to what end does one conduct natural research? Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 1969.
    • Phaeton's fall - a natural event? Meeting reports of the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences 1979.
    • Man in the technical world. Böhlau, Cologne 1957.
  • to Goethe:

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Entry in the baptismal register of St. John's Church in Dorpat (Estonian: Tartu Jaani kirik)
  2. ↑ Dietrich von Engelhardt - specialist in “Realidealism” , NZZ, September 20, 2008
  3. ↑ Wolf von Engelhardt; Helmut Hölder: Mineralogy, geology and paleontology at the University of Tübingen from the beginning to the present. Tübingen 1977, p. 52.
  4. ^ Anikó Szabó: Expulsion, return, reparation. Göttingen university professor in the shadow of National Socialism, with biographical documentation of the dismissed and persecuted university professors: University of Göttingen - TH Braunschweig - TH Hannover - University of Veterinary Medicine Hannover. Wallstein, Göttingen 2000, p. 308, ISBN 978-3-89244-381-0 (= publications of the working group history of Lower Saxony (after 1945), volume 15, also dissertation at the University of Hanover 1998).
personal data
SURNAME Engelhardt, Wolf von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Engelhardt, Wolf Jürgen von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German geologist and mineralogist
DATE OF BIRTH February 9, 1910
PLACE OF BIRTH Dorpat
DATE OF DEATH December 4, 2008
Place of death Tübingen