Wolfgang Sartorius von Waltershausen

Wolfgang Sartorius, Baron von Walter Hausen ( born December 17, 1809 in Göttingen, † March 16, 1876 ) was a German geologist.

Life and work

Sartorius by Walter Hausen studied in Göttingen. His attention was particularly the natural sciences, particularly mineralogy. His first name goes back to Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, who maintained a close friendship with his parents and his godfather was. His father Georg Sartorius was a writer and professor of economics and history at the University of Göttingen. Georg Sartorius (later George Sartorius von Walter Hausen ) is known in his role as a translator and disseminator of Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations. His son August was a noted economist.

Sartorius by Walter Hausen took part in the geomagnetic observations of Carl Friedrich Gauss, including on a trip 1834/35 through Europe, and then researched to 1843 Mount Etna in Sicily (partly together with Christian Peters). In his great Atlas of Etna (1858-1861), he charted the lava flows from past centuries on Etna. The volcanic island of Iceland, he attended to geological studies and comparative studies presented to Mount Etna on ( physical- geographical sketch of Iceland in 1847, over the volcanic rocks in Sicily and Iceland, 1853, Geological Atlas of Iceland 1853). For thirty years, until his death he was professor of geology and mineralogy at the University of Göttingen. Recherches sur les In his essay climats de l' époque actuelle et des époques anciennes of 1866, he took the view that the ice ages were caused by changes in the shape of the earth's surface.

At the age of Sartorius Walter Hausen was a close friend of Carl Friedrich Gauss. Shortly after his death, he published the well-known Gauss writing to memory. Walter Hausen spoke on behalf of the University in Gauss's funeral. The anecdote about Gauss, who surprised as a student his teacher by the rapid summing an arithmetic series, and one of the most well-known Gauss - quotes, " Mathematics is the queen of sciences and arithmetic is the queen of mathematics ", is in the obituary narrated by Walter Hausen.

The first description of the mineral pyrite Argento 1866 goes back to Wolfgang Sartorius von Walter Hausen. The mineral Sartorit and Walter Hausen Glacier (73 ° 52 'N, 24 ° 20' W73.866666666667 - 24.333333333333 ) in Northeast Greenland National Park is named after him.

Works

  • About the submarine volcanic eruptions in the Tertiary formation of the Val di Noto in comparison with related phenomena at Aetna, Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, Göttingen 1846 (Google Books: , )
  • About the volcanic rocks in Sicily and Iceland and their submarine alteration, Dieterichsche bookstore, Göttingen 1853 (Google Books :)
  • Notes to the Geological Atlas of Iceland, Dieterichsche bookstore, Göttingen 1853 (Google Books :)
  • Gauss to memory, S. Hirzel, Leipzig 1856 ( in Google Books :)

Translations

  • Gauss: A Memorial, 1966 (English translation of Gauss for a memorial, 1856, by Helen Worthington Gauss, the Internet Archive :)
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