Franz Ernst Brückmann Explained

Birth Date:	27 September 1697
Birth Place:	Marienthal
Death Place:	Wolfenbüttel
Nationality:	German
Fields:	Mineralogy, botany

Franz Ernst Brückmann (27 September 169721 March 1753) was a German mineralogist born at Marienthal near Helmstedt. Having qualified as a physician in 1721, he practised at Braunschweig and afterwards at Wolfenbüttel (from 1728). In 1747 he was appointed medical assessor in Braunschweig.^[1]

His leisure time was given up to natural history, and especially to mineralogy and botany. He appears to have been the first to introduce the term "oolithus" to rocks that resemble in structure the roe of a fish;^[2] whence the terms "oolite" and "oolitic". He died at Wolfenbüttel.

Publications

• Book: Kurtze Beschreibung und genaue Untersuchung des fürtrefflichen Weitzen-Biers Duckstein genannt. Braunschweig. 1723. de.
• Magnalia Dei in locis subterraneis (Brunswick, 1727).^[3]
• Historia naturalis curiosa lapidis (1727).^[4]
• Thesaurus subterraneus Ducatus Brunsvigii (1728).^[5]

Notes and References

1. http://www.deutsche-biographie.de/pnd118515853.html Brückmann, Franz Ernst
2. https://books.google.com/books?id=1j7PAAAAMAAJ&dq=oolithus+Br%C3%BCckmann&pg=PA1 The Jurassic Rocks of Britain: Pub. by Order of the Lords ..., Volume 4
3. https://books.google.com/books?id=3aENAAAAYAAJ&dq=%22Magnalia+Dei+in+locis+subterraneis%22+%22Thesaurus+subterraneus+Ducatus+Brunsvigii%22&pg=PA70 A Catalogue of the Library of the Museum of Practical Geology...
4. https://books.google.com/books?id=3aENAAAAYAAJ&dq=%22Magnalia+Dei+in+locis+subterraneis%22+%22Thesaurus+subterraneus+Ducatus+Brunsvigii%22&pg=PA70 A Catalogue of the Library of the Museum of Practical Geology...
5. https://books.google.com/books?id=3aENAAAAYAAJ&dq=%22Magnalia+Dei+in+locis+subterraneis%22+%22Thesaurus+subterraneus+Ducatus+Brunsvigii%22&pg=PA70 A Catalogue of the Library of the Museum of Practical Geology...