Paul Ramdohr

Paul Ramdohr as a member of student fraternity Leonensia in HeidelbergPaul A. Ramdohr (1 January 1890 in Überlingen – 8 March 1985 in Hohensachsen/Weinheim), was a German mineralogist, ore deposit-researcher and a pioneer of ore microscopy.

Life After attending school at the "Alten Gymnasium" of Darmstadt and studying at the University of Heidelberg, he earned his Doctorate in 1919 under the direction of Otto Mügge in Göttingen with a Dissertation on Basalts of the Blauen Kuppe near Eschwege. As a student in Heidelberg, Ramdohr joined the fraternity Leonensia. His Habilitation was completed soon thereafter under the direction of W. Bruhns on the topic of the Gabbros in the area of Böllstein/Brombachtal. In 1926, he took a position at the University of Aachen as Professor of Mineralogy, Petrography and Ore Geology. In 1934 he moved to the Humboldt University of Berlin, and in 1951 to the University of Heidelberg. There he occupied the Professorship of Mineralogy, which he held until 1958.

Paul Ramdohr was married and had four sons and one daughter.

Publications 1926: Kristallographie, Göschen-Band together with Willy Bruhns 1931–1934: Lehrbuch der Erzmikroskopie Vols. 1 und 2, with Hans Schneiderhöhn 1936: Lehrbuch der Mineralogie together with Friedrich Klockmann 1924: Beobachtungen an opaken Erzen 1928: Über den Mineralbestand und die Strukturen der Erze des Rammelbergs 1948: Lehrbuch der Mineralogie 13. Edition, with Klockmann 1950: Die Erzmineralien und ihre Verwachsungen 1954: Lehrbuch der Mineralogie 14. Edition, with Klockmann 1955: Petrografie Göschen-Band 4. Edition 1955: The ore minerals and their intergrowth edited by ILMEN, 2014 1960: Petrographie (Gesteinskunde), with Willy Bruhns 1965: Kristallographie Göschen-Band 1973: The opaque minerals in stony meteorites 1975: Die Erzmineralien und ihre Verwachsungen 4. Auflage 1978: Lehrbuch der Mineralogie 16. Auflage together with Klockmann and Karl Hugo Strunz 1980: The ore minerals and their intergrowth 2nd Edition

Honorary Doctorates 1955: Dr.-Ing. E.h. (TU Berlin) 1960: Dr. rer. Nat. h.c. (RWTH Aachen) 1968: Ph. D. Es. Sci. (Universität Nancy) 1969: Dr. rer. Nat. h.c. (TU Clausthal) 1973: Dr.-Ing. de Minas, h.c. (Madrid)

Prizes and Honors 1937: Membership in the Prussian Academy of Science 1936–1947: President of the German Mineralogical Society 1951: Membership in the Heidelberg Academy of Science 1962: Roebling Medal of the Mineralogical Society of America 1965–1985: Honorary President of the SGA 1970: Georg-Agricola-Medal 1978: Penrose Gold Medal 1979: Leonard Medal