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Vojtěch Rosický (30 October 1880 – 9 February 1942) was a Czech professor of mineralogy and petrology. He was arrested for taking part in the resistance group of university teachers and died in the Mauthausen concentration camp. He identified and proposed the mineral names preslite, ultrabasmine and epidesmine (a synonym of stellerite).

Life and work

Memorial stolperstein

Rosický was born in Prague, the son of biology teacher František Rosický. After studying at the Real grammar school he went to Charles University in 1899 where he studied natural history, mathematics and physics. He became interested in minerals and began to work on crystallography. He received his doctorate in 1904 studying rocks around Jílové. He spent some time at the University of Munich (1907–8, under Paul Heinrich von Groth) and Heidelberg (1908–9). He then worked in Charles University where, in 1919 he became extraordinary professor of mineralogy and petrography. The next year he became a professor. When the Masaryk University was established in Brno, he was appointed professor in 1920 and he established a mineralogical institute. In 1922 he became dean of the faculty of science and in 1925-26 he served as rector. He published a book on crystallography and mineral identification and worked on improvements to goniometry. During the German invasion of 1939, the Czech universities were closed down. Rosický joined a group of university teachers who formed a resistance. The Gestapo arrested him on 12 December 1941 and locked him in Kounicovy for a year. The next year he was taken to the Mauthausen concentration camp where he was declared died.

A posthumous Czechoslovak War Cross was awarded to him. A stolperstein was installed on Drobný street in Brno.

References

  1. Guillemin, C. (1956). "Contribution à la minéralogie des arséniates, phosphates et vanadates de cuivre. II. — Phosphates et vanadates de cuivre". Bulletin de Minéralogie Année. 79: 219–275.
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  5. "Špičkový mineralog zemřel v koncentračním táboře". Masaryk University.

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