Cornelio August Severinus Doelter, Doelter y Cisterich or Cisterich y de la Torre (16 September 1850 – 8 August 1930) was a Caribbean-born Austrian geologist who specialized in chemical mineralogy and petrology, serving as a professor at the Universities of Graz and Vienna. He conducted pioneering experiments in synthetic mineralogy and petrology by melting down rocks and allowing recrystallization of mineral constituents.
Cornelio August Severinus Doelter, Doelter y Cisterich or Cisterich y de la Torre (16 September 1850 – 8 August 1930) was a Caribbean-born Austrian geologist who specialized in chemical mineralogy and petrology, serving as a professor at the Universities of Graz and Vienna. He conducted pioneering experiments in synthetic mineralogy and petrology by melting down rocks and allowing recrystallization of mineral constituents.
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Life and work Doelter was born in Arroyo, Puerto Rico, where his father Carl August managed sugar and coffee plantations that originally belonging to his wife Francisca Maria de Cisterich y de la Torre. His mother was Spanish and his name was originally given as Doelter y Cisterich. The family moved to Karlsruhe in 1855 where Doelter studied at the Lyceum from 1860. From 1865 he studied at the Lycée St. Louis and the Lycée Bonaparte before joining the École Centrale des Arts et Manufactures in 1869. The next year he moved to the University of Freiburg and then Heidelberg. He was influenced by his teachers Robert Bunsen, Johann Friedrich Carl Klein, Ernst Wilhelm Benecke. He received a doctorate in 1872 and then worked with Eduard Suess, Ferdinand von Hochstetter, and Carl Hauer. He joined the Austrian Geological Survey in 1873 and became a professor of mineralogy at the University of Graz in 1876, becoming rector in 1906. In 1907 he moved to the University of Vienna where he succeeded Gustav Tschermak. He worked there until his retirement in 1922. Doelter's work involved travel in the early years and was involved in a survey of the Pontine Islands (1874), Monte…
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Petrogenesis (1906)
Das radium und die farben; einwirkung des radiums und ultravioletter strahlen auf organische und anorganische stoffe sowie auf mineralien (1910)
