Otto Mügge, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Otto Mügge

German geologist and mineralogist

Date of Birth: 04-Mar-1858

Place of Birth: Hanover, Lower Saxony, Germany

Date of Death: 09-Jun-1932

Profession: geologist, university teacher, mineralogist, crystallographer

Nationality: Germany

Zodiac Sign: Pisces

Johannes Otto Conrad Mügge (4 March 1858, Hannover – 9 June 1932, Göttingen) was a German mineralogist and crystallographer. From 1875 to 1879 he studied mathematics and sciences at the Technical University of Hannover and at the University of Göttingen.
After graduation, he spent three years as an assistant to Harry Rosenbusch at the mineralogical-geological institute of the University of Heidelberg.
From 1882 he worked as curator of the mineralogical and geological department at the Natural History Museum in Hamburg, and in 1886 became an associate professor at the academy in Münster.
Later on, he served as a full professor at the University of Königsberg, where in 1903/04 he was named dean to the faculty of philosophy.
In 1908 he relocated as a professor to the University of Göttingen.Mügge Island, one of the Bennett Islands off the coast of Antarctica, commemorates his name.