Hermann Traube

Hermann Traube (* September 24 1860 in Ratibor, Upper Silesia, † January 29, 1913 in Berlin) was a German mineralogist.

Hermann Traube was a son of the chemist and scholar Moritz Traube. His brother was Wilhelm Traube ( 1866-1942 ). He visited the Mary Magdalene Gymnasium in Breslau. Then he studied in Leipzig, Heidelberg, Breslau and Greifswald. He received his doctorate in 1884 for Dr. phil. in Greifswald with a work on mineralogy. To H. Traube teachers included, inter alia, Heinrich Irenaeus Quincke (1842-1922) (Heidelberg ); Theodor Poleck, Carl Friedländer (1847-1887) and Ferdinand Cohn (Breslau). From 1889 he was professor of mineralogy and associate professor (1905 ) at the University of Berlin as well as an associate professor in Greifswald ( 1905-1906 ).

Works

  • Contributions to the knowledge of the gabbros, amphibolites and Serpentine of the Lower Silesian Mountains. Greifswald, Phil Diss 1884
  • The minerals of Silesia with 30 Zinkographien. J. U. Kern, Wroclaw 1888
  • About the optical rotation of bodies in crystallized and in the liquid state. In: Proceedings of the Royal Prussian Academy of Sciences in Berlin. 1895 (I ), pp. 195-205 Digitalisat
  • Concerning the crystalline form optically activer body. In: Reports of the German Chemical Society, ISSN 0365-9496, Vol 30 (1897 ), pp. 288-288
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