Leopold Heinrich Fischer

Leopold Heinrich Fischer ( born December 19, 1817 in Freiburg im Breisgau, † February 2nd, 1886 ibid ) was a physician, mineralogist and geologist.

Life

Henry Fischer studied in Freiburg and Vienna medicine and science, practiced as a doctor and habilitated at the same time as a lecturer in mineralogy and zoology at the University of Freiburg, which he in 1854 as an associate in 1859 to Full Professor of Geology and Mineralogy and Director of the mineralogical- was appointed geological museum. His first works were moving on entomological field, later he devoted himself more of Mineralogy and was one of the first who used the microscope in this science. In the early 1870s he founded with Alexander Ecker the prehistoric and ethnographic museum and examined especially stone axes, stone amulets and stone idols of all nations.

1882 Fischer was appointed a member of the Leopoldina.

Writings

• Contributions to the History of Orthoptheren - study (1849 ) online
• Orthoptera europaea, (Leipzig 1853) online
• Clavis of silicates, ( Leipzig, 1864);
• Chronological overview of the gradual introduction of microscopy in the study of mineralogy, petrography and paleontology, (Freiburg 1868)
• Critical microscopic and mineralogical studies (Freiburg 1869-73 )
• The mineralogy as an auxiliary science of Archaeology, (Braunschweig 1877)
• Nephrite and jadeite according to their mineralogical properties as well as their prehistoric and ethnographic significance: Introduction to mineralogy in the study of archeology; Chromolithograph With 131 woodcuts and 2. Panels, (2nd edition, Stuttgart 1880)