Franz Ernst Brückmann
Franz Ernst Brückmann (September 27, 1697 – March 21, 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.
His publications include Magnalia Dei in locis subterraneis (Brunswick, 1727), Historia naturalis curiosa lapidis (1727), and Thesaurus subterraneus Ducatus Brunsvigii (1728).[3]
Notes
- ↑ Brückmann, Franz Ernst In: Neue Deutsche Biographie (NDB). Band 2, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1955, ISBN 3-428-00183-4, S. 655 f.
- ↑ The Jurassic Rocks of Britain: Pub. by Order of the Lords ..., Volume 4
- ↑ A Catalogue of the Library of the Museum of Practical Geology... by Museum of Practical Geology (Great Britain). Library, Thomas W. Newton
References
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Brückmann, Franz Ernst". Encyclopædia Britannica 4 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press.
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