Heinrich Girard

Henry Girard (actually: Carl Adolph Heinrich Girard; * June 2, 1814 in Berlin, † April 11, 1878 in Halle ( Saale) ) was a German geologist and mineralogist.

Life

The son of the toys dealer Paul Emil Girard came from a Huguenot family, where he was the fourth youngest child. After he had visited in earliest youth a preparatory institution in Berlin, he frequented from his 12th to 16th year trade school in Berlin. Because he wanted to take up the profession of a pharmacist originally, he graduated in pharmacy Bärwald'schen a lesson. The same time he continued his education by private tutors and graduated from Easter 1835 at the French Gymnasium in Berlin his Abitur examination. He then entered the University of Berlin to study the natural sciences and worked intensively with the mineralogy and geology. His teachers were then Hermann Burmeister (1807-1892), Paul Erman (1764-1851), Hinrich Lichtenstein (1780-1857), Eilhard Mitscherlich (1794-1863), Johann Christian Poggendorff (1796-1877), Carl Ritter ( 1779 - 1859), Gustav Rose ( 1798-1873 ) and Heinrich Rose ( 1795-1864 ).

Of great use and interest were more trips during which he accompanied the botanist Heinrich Friedrich Link (1767-1851) in Italy, and Leopold von Buch (1774-1853), which is much to be looked at him and promoted in every respect for him. Also, at the instigation of a larger Neusilberwarenfabrik he traveled to Switzerland and the Pyrenees, where he abhandelte a report on the nickel mines there. On April 18, 1840, he received his doctorate based on a dissertation " de basaltis eorumque et vulcanorum rationibus " of the Faculty of Philosophy in Berlin as a doctor of philosophy.

After receiving his doctorate Girard had received an appointment as Custos of the Berlin mineralogical museum, whose mineralogical department was assigned by Christian Samuel White (1780-1856) him, while the paleontological Ernst Beyrich (1815-1896) was administered. In 1845 he qualified as a professor at the Berlin University as a lecturer in mineralogy. During this time he repeated hikes and research, partly accompanied by his listeners, in northern Germany. A fruit thereof was his first major title: " Geognostic surveys in the North German plain " (1846 ). In 1849, Girard was associate professor of mineralogy and geology at the University of Marburg, where he was given the Directorate of the Mineral Cabinet, as well as the construction of a Mineralogical Institute. However, for political reasons he had to leave Marburg and was appointed at the end of 1853 as a full professor of mineralogy and geology at the University of Halle- Wittenberg. Here he has worked since the summer semester 1864. He was - as long as he was in full force - a popular teacher who live fully and with a fine sense brought his rich knowledge of the learning youth for display.

He has gained a lot of confidence in his colleagues and fellow citizens by his amiable disposition, by its appealing stimulating mentality in handling traffic as by his skill in the practical affairs. He had also participated in the organizational tasks of the Halle University and was 1863/64, rector of the Alma Mater. Also as a member of the City Council, he had been a long time worked. For several years before his death, he was compelled by increasing illness, to resign from his job. The Leopoldina he belonged since June 1, 1856 under the name " Free Life" on.

Works (selection)

  • The North German level, particularly between the Elbe and the Vistula represented geologically. G. Reimer, Berlin 1855
  • Geological hikes. I. Wallis Vivarais -Velay. CEM pepper, Hall 1855, 2nd edition 1861 online
  • Its share of v. Dechen 's Geological Map of the Rhine Province and Westphalia. J. Schropp, Berlin 1855-65
  • Letters on Alexander von Humboldt's Cosmos. Edited by B. v. Cotta, J. Schaller, WC Wittwer and H. Girard. Part 4, Division 2, edited by H. Girard. T. O. Weigel, Leipzig 1860 Online
  • Manual of Mineralogy. T. O. Weigel, Leipzig 1862
  • Basis of soil science for agricultural and forestry keepers. C. E. M. Pepper, Halle 1868
  • About a new occurrence of feldspar - quadruplets. In: Mining and Metallurgical newspaper. I, 1842
  • Concerning the deposit of diamonds. In: Erdmann 's Journal of practical chemistry. XXIX, 1843, p 197
  • Determination of some of A. Erman in European Russia and in North Asia collected Thier- fossils. In: Erdmann 's Russian archive. III, 1843, p 539
  • Results of a study of the geognostical areas between Wittenberg, Belzig, Magdeburg, Stendal and Helmstedt. In: Karsten and Dechen v. 's Archive for Mineralogy ct. XVIII, 1844, p 87
  • About Surface and structure ratios of the north German plain and especially about the mountain ranges, lakes and the peculiar direction of the three rivers Elbe, Oder and Vistula. III, 1846, p 87
  • Calceola pyramidalis n sp. from Gothland. In: von Leonhard and Bronn 's 's year book of mineralogy. 1842, p 232
  • Diamond and his mother rocks in Brazil. In: von Leonhard and Bronn 's 's year book of mineralogy. 1843, p 307
  • Journey to the naturalist meeting in Padua; mineralogical negotiations there; boulders, glaciers, Gryphäen; Description of the collection of petrifactions to Padua from limestone, chalk and oolitics. In: von Leonhard and Bronn 's 's year book of mineralogy. 1843, p 469
  • About coprolites from the coal mountains of Hohenelbe in Bohemia. In: von Leonhard and Bronn 's 's year book of mineralogy. 1843, p 757
  • For geology of Inner Africa. In: von Leonhard and Bronn 's 's year book of mineralogy. 1844, p 311
  • Petrifactions from Russia. In: von Leonhard and Bronn 's 's year book of mineralogy. 1845, p 128
  • Geological Travel Notes from Italy. In: von Leonhard and Bronn 's 's year book of mineralogy. 1845, p 769
  • About the tracks primeval beasts in the sandstone, especially Chirotherium. In: von Leonhard and Bronn 's 's year book of mineralogy. 1846, p 1
  • London Thonlager in northern Germany; Hydrarchus in Berlin. In: von Leonhard and Bronn 's 's year book of mineralogy. 1846, p 465
  • Occurrence and distribution of Londonclay 's in the north German plain. In: von Leonhard and Bronn 's 's year book of mineralogy. 1847, p 563
  • About the construction of Kyffhaeuser Mountains by observations from 1843 In: . V. Leonhard 's and Bronn 's Jahrbuch for mineralogy. 1847, p 687
  • About the metamorphic slates and porphyries near Rübeland. In: von Leonhard and Bronn 's 's year book of mineralogy. 1848, p 260
  • Conversion green slate in porphyry. Westphälische transition Mountains at Arensberg. In: von Leonhard and Bronn 's 's year book of mineralogy. 1848, p 306
  • Spread of Clymenien and goniatites - lime in Europe. In: von Leonhard and Bronn 's 's year book of mineralogy. 1849, p 450
  • About the varieties of Terebratula vicinals from the brocatello d' Arzo. In: von Leonhard and Bronn 's 's year book of mineralogy. 1851, p 316
  • Dissemination of goniatites and Clymenien Mountains; geological trip to Switzerland, southern France and the Pyrenees, Bex, Baveno, Lugano, Mendrisio, Tremona. In: von Leonhard and Bronn 's 's year book of mineralogy. 1851, p 331
  • Geognostic trip through southern France from Genoa to Barcelona. In: von Leonhard and Bronn 's 's year book of mineralogy. 1853, p 564
  • About the Melaphyre in the area of Ilefeld am Harz. In: von Leonhard and Bronn 's 's year book of mineralogy. 1858, p 145
  • Anhydrite crystals of Strassfurt. In: von Leonhard and Bronn 's 's year book of mineralogy. 1862, p 591
  • Hoevelit, a new mineral. In: von Leonhard and Bronn 's 's year book of mineralogy. 1863, p 568
  • About the geognostical conditions of the northeastern German lowlands. In: Journal of the Geological Society. 1849, p 339
  • About basalts and their relation to the dolerites. In: Poggendorff 's Annals of physics and chemistry. Volume LIV, 1841, pp. 557
  • About erected by Prof. Goeppert in Wroclaw in the botanical garden profile of the coal formation. In: Proceedings of the Natural History Society at Halle. 1856, p 16
  • About the North German brown coal in comparison with the vegetation of the western coast of South America. In: Proceedings of the Natural History Society at Halle. 1857, p.4
  • About rare areas in the quartz. In: Proceedings of the Natural History Society at Halle. 1857, p 5
  • About changes in a Quarzkrystalles, which has located in hydrofluoric acid. In: Proceedings of the Natural History Society at Halle. 1861, p 9
  • About conical - celled musch depressions on the breast area of ​​flint and a glass ball. In: Proceedings of the Natural History Society at Halle. 1861, p 11
  • As to the relief ratios of the earth's surface. In: Proceedings of the Natural History Society at Halle. 1865, p 17
  • As to the relations of the Jurassic to the Cretaceous formation, in particular with regard to the relationship of the faunas. In: Proceedings of the Natural History Society at Halle. 1866, p 24
  • As to the probable decomposition products of the feldspars by the atmospheric gases. In: Proceedings of the Natural History Society at Halle. 1867, p 11
  • About the porphyry and limestone mountains of the southern Tyrol. In: Proceedings of the Natural History Society at Halle. 1869, p 38
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