Ernst Heinrich Oskar Kasimir Weinschenk (6 April 1865,
Esslingen am Neckar – 26 March 1921,
Munich) was a German
mineralogist and
petrologist.
He served as a professor at the "
Technische Hochschule" in
Munich (1897–1921) and at the
University of Munich (from 1900). His scientific research included mineralogical analysis of
meteorites
A meteorite is a solid piece of debris from an object, such as a comet, asteroid, or meteoroid, that originates in outer space and survives its passage through the atmosphere to reach the surface of a planet or moon. When the original object en ...
, and studies of
contact-metamorphic mineralization in the
Alpine region
The main valleys of the Alps, orographically by drainage basin.
Rhine basin (North Sea)
High Rhine
*Aare
** Limmat
***Linth (Glarus)
****Lake Walen
*****Seeztal
**** Klöntal
****Sernftal
** Reuss
***Lake Lucerne
****Sarner Aa (Brünig Pass co ...
of central Europe. He also conducted investigations on the origin of the
sulfidic ore deposit at
Silberberg in the
Bavarian Forest, as well as the genesis of
graphite deposits near
Passau
Passau (; bar, label=Central Bavarian, Båssa) is a city in Lower Bavaria, Germany, also known as the Dreiflüssestadt ("City of Three Rivers") as the river Danube is joined by the Inn from the south and the Ilz from the north.
Passau's popu ...
. Through the use of
polarizing microscopy and
thin sectioning, he determined numerous new minerals.
Written works
Weinschenk's ''Grundzüge der Gesteinskunde'' was translated into English in 1916 by Albert Johannsen as "The fundamental principles of petrology". With mineralogist
Konrad Oebbeke
Konrad Oebbeke (2 November 1853, Hildesheim – 1 February 1932) was a German geologist and mineralogist.
He studied at the Universities of Heidelberg and Erlangen, obtaining his doctorate at the University of Würzburg in 1877. Afterwards he ...
(1853–1932), he published editions 6 (1899) & 7 (1913) of
Wolfgang Franz von Kobell
Wolfgang Xavier Franz Ritter von Kobell (19 July 180311 November 1882) was a German mineralogist and writer of short stories and poems in Bavarian dialect.
Biography
Kobell was born in Munich, Bavaria (where he also died), son of the painter ...
's ''Lehrbuch Der Mineralogie : in leichtfasslicher Darstellung''. Other works by Weinschenk include:
* ''Allgemeine Gesteinskunde'', 1902 – General petrology
* ''Specielle Gesteinskunde'', 1905 – Special petrology
* "Petrographic methods", the authorized English translation of Part I, Anleitung zum gebrauch des polarisationsmikroskops (3d rev. ed.) and Part II, Die gesteinsbildenden mineralien (2d rev. ed.) – translated into English by Robert Watson Clark.
* ''Allgemeine Gesteinskunde als Grundlage der Geologie'', 1913 – General petrology and foundation of
geology.
* ''Petrographisches vademekum : ein Hilfsbuch für Geologen, Geographen und Technike''. 1924 –
Petrographic handbook, a book for geologists,
geographers, and technicians.
* ''Das Polarisationsmikroskop'' 1925 – The polarization microscope.
The mineral
weinschenkite, also known as "churchite-(Y)", is named after him.
Webmineral.com
Churchite-(Y) Mineral Data
References
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Academic staff of the Technical University of Munich
Academic staff of the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich
People from Esslingen am Neckar
1865 births
1921 deaths
German mineralogists
Petrologists