Harry Rosenbusch

(Karl) Heinrich/Harry (Ferdinand) Rosenbusch (24 June 1836 – 20 January 1914) was a German petrographer.

Harry Rosenbusch was born in Einbeck. He taught at Heidelberg University (1877–1908), where he founded the Mineralogisches-geologisches Institut. He died, aged 77, in Heidelberg.

He received the 1903 Wollaston Medal from the Geological Society of London.

Literary works

• Mikroskopische Physiographie der petrographisch wichtigen Mineralien, 1873
• Mikroskopische Physiographie der Mineralien und Gesteine, 4 Vols., 1873–1877
• Elemente der Gesteinslehre, 1898
• Mikroskopische Physiographie (4th ed., Stuttgart, 1909, 2 vols.)

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External links

• — He is mention a number of times in the article specifically: "the more basic minerals precede the less basic; ... is known as Rosenbusch's law" (p. 330).
• Microscope after Fuess-Rosenbusch introduced as first German petrographic microscope, Berlin approx. 1880