Education
His Habilitation was completed soon thereafter under the direction of West. Bruhns on the topic of the Gabbros in the area of Böllstein/Brombachtal.
mineralogist university professor
His Habilitation was completed soon thereafter under the direction of West. Bruhns on the topic of the Gabbros in the area of Böllstein/Brombachtal.
After attending school at the "Alten Gymnasium" of Darmstadt and studying at the University of Heidelberg, he earned his Doctorate in 1919 in Göttingen with a Dissertation on Basalts of the Blauen Kuppe near Eschwege. In 1926 he took a position at the University of Aachen as Professor of Mineralogy, Petrography and Ore Geology. In 1934 he moved to the Humboldt University of Berlin, and in 1951 to the University of Heidelberg.
There he occupied the Professorship of Mineralogy, which he held until 1958.
1937: Membership in the Prussian Academy of Science 1936–1947: President of the German Mineralogical Society 1951: Membership in the Heidelberg Academy of Science 1962: Roebling Medal of the Mineralogical Society of America 1965–1985: Honorary President of the SGA 1970: Georg-Agricola-Medal 1978: Penrose Gold Medal 1979: Leonard Meda
Prussian Academy of Sciences. Heidelberg Academy for Sciences and Humanities.
