| Berg, Georg
Geologist, after finishing the secondary school in Dresden in 1896, he began to study at the Mining Academy at Freiberg in 1896. He graduated in 1900 and earned a degree of mining engineer. He was an assistant to professor Becke in 1901. Because of his dissatisfaction, resulting from his technical orientation as the mining engineer, he changed to the study of geology at the University of Lepzig, at that time one of the best research establishments for geology. He graduated with a Ph.D. degree having defended the thesis on the magnetite deposit in Schmiedeberg. He then worked in the Prussian Provincial Geological Institute. In 1924, he was appointed professor and mining counsellor, 1927 a provincial geologist and in 1940 a public geologist at the Imperial Geological Institute. He participated in mapping of the Lower Silesia. He studied the petrography of crystalline rocks in eastern part of the Giant Mountains, local granite and its periphery, gneisses of the Jizerské hory Mountains and petrography of the Lusatian granite and its varieties. He participated in the establishment of mineral collections in the Prussian Geological Institute and organized collection of mineral deposits of the Lower Silesia. He was one of the first to address the issue of ore microscopy and general questions of economic geology. He published the achieved results in the book 'Obecná ložisková geologie' (Basic Economic Geology). At the beginning of the World War Two he concentrated on sedimentary petrology, namely oolitic iron ores and other sedimentary ores. He took part in various missions searching for mineral deposits (in Tyrol, Dalmatia, Montenegro, Turkey, Finnish Lapland, Norway, Spain). He visited a number of mineral deposits in the USA. He was also interested in karst phenomena, gas exhalations and coal deposits. |
born 13th August 1876, Dresden, died 13th November 1946, Berlin
