Harry Rosenbusch Explained

Harry Rosenbusch
Birth Date:	24 June 1836
Birth Place:	Einbeck
Death Place:	Heidelberg
Nationality:	German
Field:	petrography
Work Institutions:	Heidelberg University
Alma Mater:	Universität Freiburg
Doctoral Advisor:	Heinrich Fischer
Thesis Title:	Der Nephelinit vom Katzenbuckel
Thesis Year:	1869
Doctoral Students:	Victor Mordechai Goldschmidt Frederick Eugene Wright

(Karl) Heinrich/Harry (Ferdinand) Rosenbusch^[1] (24 June 1836 – 20 January 1914) was a German petrographer.

Harry Rosenbusch was born in Einbeck. He taught at Heidelberg University (1877–1908), where he founded the Mineralogisches-geologisches Institut. He died, aged 77, in Heidelberg.^[2]

He received the 1903 Wollaston Medal from the Geological Society of London.^[3]

Literary works

• Mikroskopische Physiographie der petrographisch wichtigen Mineralien, 1873
• Mikroskopische Physiographie der Mineralien und Gesteine, 4 Vols., 1873-1877
• Elemente der Gesteinslehre, 1898
• Mikroskopische Physiographie (4th ed., Stuttgart, 1909, 2 vols.)

External links

• John Smith . Flett . Petrology . 21 . 325-333 . x . — He is mention a number of times in the article specifically: "the more basic minerals precede the less basic; ... is known as Rosenbusch's law" (p. 330).
• Microscope after Fuess-Rosenbusch introduced as first German petrographic microscope, Berlin approx. 1880

Notes and References

1. Also known as Karl Heinrich/Harry Rosenbusch, or H. F. Rosenbusch
2. Obituary. Karl H. F. Rosenbusch. Geological Magazine. 1914. 51. 140–141. 10.1017/s0016756800138269. free.
3. The Geological Society of London . 10 January 1903 . 6 . 36974.