Geologen-Wege - ein Ruckblick (1930/95)

摘要

Benaras has been a nerve centre of many religious & cultural activities for centuries, and propagating various subjects of social relevance including science. The Benaras Hindu University (BHU) has also been playing equally an important role in the understanding of science and technology from our modem and traditional perspectives. It is perhaps the only university which nurtured great national spirit through Pandit Madan Mohan Malviya, its first Vice-chancellor, himself a national leader elected three times as President of Indian National Congress invited great national leaders like Mahatma Gandhi, Rabindranath Tagore, Acharya P.C. Ray, Sir C.V. Raman and others at its initial phases to give guidance and shape to the curriculum of the university. It is the first university of its kind which understood the importance of national heritage in science and encouraged studies and researches in different areas of traditional Indian science and created space for them in the university curriculum along with modem science. Slowly it developed faculties of Indian Medicine, Dravyaguna, Rasathstra, Krsisastra, Metals and Metallurgy, Indian history and archaeology, along with modem areas in science and technology. This exercise has produced a large number of stalwarts like Prof T. R. Anantaraman, P. Ramachandra Rao, R.Balasubramaniam (in Metal and Metallurgy), K.N.Udupa and P.V.Sharma, H.S.Singhvi (History of Indian Medicine), Lalanji Gopal (History of Indian Agriculture), R.S.S ingh & Damodara Joshi(History of Indian Alchemy and Chemistry) and so on, whose works had been of great merit and internationally recognized. The University has been cultivating and nurturing an environment to assess our national heritage in science, and in a way is very close to our activitiesDie Autobiographie Anton Ruttners (1911-2006) zeichnet den Weg eines Geologen vom Studium bis hin zum Hohepunkt seiner Karriere als Direktor der Geologischen Bundesanstalt nach. Eingebettet ist dieser in die Zeit des Zweiten Weltkriegs, in die Zeit des Wiederaufbaus und zahlreicher Auslandsaufenthalte, insbesondere im Iran (Persien). Internationale Entwicklungen werden ebenso thematisiert, wie eine Reihe personlicher Erlebnisse und Entwicklungen an der Geologischen Bundesanstalt in Wien, insbesondere der geologischen Kartierung. Runner war auch nach seiner Pensionierung als Direktor sowohl im In- wie auch im Ausland als Geologe aktiv. (T.H.)