Albin Heinrich (1 March 1785 – 5 April 1864) was a Moravian geologist, educator, and writer of books. He was the curator of the Františkovo museum in Brno for a significant part of his life.
Biography
Heinrich was born in Friedland (now Břidličná), Olomouc. Educated at the Altenburg Gymnasium, he went to the University of Vienna where he shifted from a study of the classics to natural sciences. He went on outdoors trips with Josef August Schultes into Austria, Styria, Tyrol and other parts. He then became a private tutor in Krakow continuing to keep in touch with Schultes who moved the Jagiellonian University. A collection of his minerals was lost during the 1809 uprising in Poland although some that he had given Johann Scherschnik were saved. In 1813 he became a substitute teacher at the Catholic Gymnasium in Těšín and replaced Scherschnik after his death the next year. He managed a library and natural history collection and in 1831 he moved to the Brno grammar school. He became a curator of the Franzens Museum in 1832 serving in that position until his resignation in 1850 due to illness.
Heinrich wrote numerous books on minerals. He founded a Wernerian association in 1851.
References
- Trnkova, Petra (2015). "The Beginnings of Photography in Central Europe: Friedrich Franz and the First Daguerreotypes in Brno". History of Photography. 39 (2): 121–141. doi:10.1080/03087298.2015.1040241. ISSN 0308-7298.
- ^ "Heinrich, Albin". Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich (in German). Vol. 8. 1862. p. 224.
- Melion, Josef Vincenc (1864). Albin Heinrich, jubilirter kk Gymnasial-Professor, Museums-Custos und Director des Werner-Vereins zur geologischen Durchforschung von Mähren und Schlesien: Eine Biographie. Brno: Werner-Verein zur geol. Durchforschung von Mähren und Schlesien.
External links
- Biography
- Manuscript of Geologie (1822)