Franz Ernst Brückmann
Scientist, Deceased Person
1697 – 1753
Who was Franz Ernst Brückmann?
Franz Ernst Brückmann was a German mineralogist born at Marienthal near Helmstedt. Having qualified as a medical man in 1721, he practised at Brunswick and afterwards at Wolfenbüttel. 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.
His publications include Magnalia Dei in locis subterraneis, Historia naturalis curiosa lapidis, and Thesaurus subterraneus Ducatus Brunsvigii.
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