Franz Ernst Brückmann
German mineralogist and scientist
About Franz Ernst Brückmann
Lived 1697 – 1753 (aged 55). Franz Ernst Brückmann was a German physician, mineralogist, naturalist and bibliographer.
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.
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; whence the terms "oolite" and "oolitic". He died at Wolfenbüttel.
Publications
Magnalia Dei in locis subterraneis (Brunswick, 1727). Historia naturalis curiosa lapidis (1727). Thesaurus subterraneus Ducatus Brunsvigii (1728).
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German mineralogist and scientist (1697 – 1753)
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Franz Ernst Brückmann was born on 27 September 1697 in Mariental.
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Franz Ernst Brückmann died on 21 March 1753 in Wolfenbüttel.
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Franz Ernst Brückmann was a physician, mineralogist, naturalist and bibliographer.
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Franz Ernst Brückmann was German.
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