Georg Amadeus Carl Friedrich Naumann
Carl Friedrich Naumann ( * May 30, 1797 in Dresden, † November 26, 1873 ) was a German geologist and crystallographer.
Life
The eldest son of the composer Johann Gottlieb Naumann studied between 1816-1820 at the Mining Academy in Freiberg as well in Jena and Leipzig. Following a multi-year journey to Norway 1823 he was graduated Doctor of Philosophy (equivalent to today's Dr. rer. Nat. ) And habilitated in Jena. In 1824 he was awarded an extraordinary professorship in Leipzig. He was the father of the musician Ernst Naumann.
As successor to Carl Amandus Kühns 1826 he moved to Freiberg and taught Crystallography and from 1835 also geology. At this time, took over Naumann together with Bernhard von Cotta editing the geognostical Map of Saxony. In 1842 he participated in an appeal to the newly created professorship at the University of Leipzig where he taught mineralogy and geology.
Naumann discovered in 1844 on the porphyry (now called rhyolite ) of the Hohburger mountains grinding traces of glacial ice, thereby founding, along with Charles Adolphe Morlot and Louis Agassiz, the theory of continental glaciation, the basis of subsequent glaciology was. In the same year he became a corresponding member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and in 1859 was appointed foreign members.
Naumann was in 1866 appointed Bergrat. After his retirement in 1870, he returned to his hometown of Dresden.
Honors
Works
- Attempt at a rock theory, 1824
- Draft Lithurgik the economic mineralogy, 1828
- Floor plan of Crystallography, 2 vols, 1830
- Textbook of pure and applied crystallography, 2 vols, 1830
- Contributions to the Knowledge of Norway, 2 vols, 1834
- Geognostic special map of the Kingdom of Saxony, 1835-43 (12 sections)
- Foundations of Crystallography, 1841 and 1854
- Elements of Mineralogy, 1846 (12 editions until 1885)
- Textbook of geology, 1850-1872 2/3 Bde (2 editions)
- Geognostic description of the coal basin of Floeha in Saxony, 1865
- Geognostic map of the Erzgebirge Basin, 1866 ( 2 sections )
- Geognostic map around Hainichen, 1871