Paul Heinrich von Groth

Paul Heinrich von Groth, also Paul Heinrich Ritter von Groth ( born June 23, 1843 in Magdeburg, † December 2, 1927 in Munich) was a German mineralogist.

Groth studied in Freiberg, Dresden and Berlin. In Freiberg he joined the Corps Saxo - Borussia. He received his doctorate in 1868 and in 1872 professor of mineralogy at the University of Strasbourg. From 1883 he was professor of mineralogy and curator of minerals at the State Museum in Munich and was full professor at the so-called " Second Philosophy Department ," Chemical Institute, the University of Munich.

Groth conducted extensive research on crystals, minerals and stones.

1874-1898 appeared his Tabular overview of simple minerals, and from 1876 to 1895 his Physical Crystallography ( 4th edition 1905).

Groth was some years the Journal of Crystallography and Mineralogy out.

In 1902 he was ennobled in 1908 he was awarded the Wollaston medal.

1926, its development history of the mineralogical sciences.

When he retired in 1924, there was in Munich a scandal around his proposed by himself and by chemist Richard Willstätter successor of Jewish origin, Victor Moritz Goldschmidt from Oslo. The majority of the faculty rejected this from from anti-Semitic reasons. That was one reason, to submit his resignation for Willstätter. His students made a vain solidarity campaign to keep him, even the doctors Ferdinand Sauerbruch, Friedrich von Müller and Rudolf Nissen were involved. In vain, Willstätter won realism. Nissen indicates that this decision made ​​it easier for himself in 1933 in time to perceive the impact of the academic anti-Semitism as a threat to life and to go to Turkey.