Carl Gotthelf Immanuel Friedländer (b. 23 May 1905, Naples?, d. 3 November 1991, Westport, Canada) was a Swiss and Canadian Geologist.

Life

Carl grew up in Naples (Italy), his father was Immanuel Friedländer, a prominent German volcanologist in Switzerland and Italy. His mother was Herta Friedländer neé Meyer (1876-1958), the sister of the Austrian physicist Stefan Meyer (1872-1949), whose maternal uncle was the crystallographer Victor Mordechai Goldschmidt (1853-1933) in Heidelberg. He had a younger sister Olga who also attended University in Zürich. Carl was married first to Margaret Rhonheimer (1920-1952), and later to Alba Paganini.

Career

He studied Geology in Switzerland at the University of Zürich and the ETH Zürich, receiving his Dr.phil.II with a dissertation on the ore deposits of the Bündner Oberland in Switzerland. He first continued research at ETH Zürich but later became professor and department chair from 1957-1969 at Dalhousie University in Canada.

Publications

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Friedländer, C. (1929) Der Chloritoid vom Crestlianderstobel. Schweiz. min. petrogr. Mitt. 9:247-64.

Friedländer, C. (1930) Erzvorkommnisse des Bündner Oberlandes u. ihre Begleitgesteine. PhD dissertation, Jahresverzeichnis 1930 Nr. 833; and Beiträge zur Geologie der Schweiz. Geotechnische Serie XVI-1; 70 pp.

Friedländer, C. & P. Niggli (1931) Beitrag zur Petrographie der Vogesen. Schweiz. Miner.-Petrogr. Mitt. XI: 365-411.

Quervain, F. de, & Friedländer, C. (1942) Chemismus Schweizerischer Gesteine. Beitr. geol. Schweiz. 20; 108 pp.

Friedländer, C. (1944) Diamantengewinnung in Afrika. Vierteljahrsschrift der Naturforschenden Gesellschaft in Zürich 89: 187.

Friedländer, C. (1944) Beobachtungen an Quartzkristallen aus einer tonigen Spaltasfuellung in Gneis. Schweiz. Mineral. Petrogr. Mitt. 24:25-29.

Friedländer, C. & Locher, F. (1945) Vorläufige Untersuchungsergebnisse über die Eignung alpiner Quarze für piezoelektrische Zwecke. Vierteljahrsschrift der Naturforschenden Gesellschaft in Zürich 90(2): 125-35.

Friedländer, C. (1948) Morphologische Feststellung von R-L-Verzwilligung an alpinen Quarzkristallen. Schweiz. Min. Petrogr. Mttlg. 28: 71-83.

Friedländer, C. (1951) Untersuchung über die Eignung alpiner Quarze für piezoelektrische Zwecke. Beitr. Geol. Schweiz, Geotech. Ser., Liefg 29: 1-98.

Friedländer, C. (1952) Structural imperfections in Alpine quartz crystals. Geological Magazine 89(3):217-220.

== Sources ==

Dalhousie article

enrollment record, Zürich (includes a record on his sister Olga).