Karl August Lossen

Life

Lossen studied at the Friedrich- Wilhelms- University of Berlin, at the Mining Academy in Berlin and at the University of Halle, where he received his doctorate in 1866 with a theme on the geology of the Taunus.

As a geologist, Lossen 1866 worked at the Prussian Geological Survey; from 1873 on, he was Royal State Geologist. He created his most important work of the geological ( " geognostical " ) overview map of the resin at a scale of 1:100 000; It was first printed in 1877. Although he worked in Berlin, he returned again and again in the resin, to map the local geological layers accurately and to present several fundamental publications. For 27 years he dealt with the geological structure of the resin.

Honors

On October 17, 1896 four-meter- tall monument, a granite obelisk with relief and commemorative plaque, surrounded by numerous rocks from the resin, for Lossen was built on the initiative of the Natural Science Association of the town of Wernigerode in Drängetal at the confluence of Thumkuhlentales; October 17, 1993, it was completed after a repair in its current reconstructed and expanded form. Furthermore, in Hasserode a street is named after him, as is the mineral Lossenit, a mixture of scorodite and Beudantite.

Lossenweg in Wernigerode