Education
From 1880 he studied natural sciences at the University of Göttingen, where he was a pupil of Adolf von Koenen.
mineralogist university professor
From 1880 he studied natural sciences at the University of Göttingen, where he was a pupil of Adolf von Koenen.
After receiving his habilitation, he was a lecturer at Göttingen (1885-1887) and at the University of Berlin (1887-1894), and from 1894 onward, was a professor of mineralogy and geology at the Technical University of Hanover. Following brief stays at the universities of Königsberg and Kiel, he obtained the chair of mineralogy at the University of Leipzig (1909). After his retirement in 1928, he was named an honorary professor at the University of Freiburg.
Today, the Friedrich-Rinne-Preis is awarded to outstanding dissertation theses in the field of mineralogy at the universities of Freiburg, Göttingen and Leipzig.
He is remembered for his application of quantitative physical-mechanical and physicochemical techniques to geosciences. He was among the first scientists to use x-rays in the structural analysis of minerals.
Encouraged by the work of Hendrik Enno Boeke and Jacobus Henricus van"t Hoff, he founded the discipline of Salzpetrographie (salt petrography). In 1909 the mineral "rinneite" was named in his honor.
Saxonian Academy of Sciences. German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina. Heidelberg Academy for Sciences and Humanities.
Göttingen Academy of Sciences.
