Dr. Gerhard Jung stands is renowned for his expertise in Hagendorf specimens and honoured by having the mineral Jungite named after him. His distinguished reputation stems not only from his extensive knowledge but also from his meticulous approach to mineral collection documentation. Throughout his career, particularly from the early 1970s to late 1980s, Dr. Jung maintained close professional relationships with other notable collectors, including Walter Richard Kahn (namesake of Warikahnite) and Wolfgang Bartelke (namesake of Bartelkeite). These connections enabled him to acquire numerous significant specimens, each carefully documented with its chain of ownership.
Gerhard Jung studied chemistry and earned his doctorate in this field. Dr. Jung was not only a passionate collector of significant specimens from around the world, but also known as a Hagendorf specialist. He discovered a new type of mineral in the Hagendorf-South pegmatite, which was named after him in 1981 in his honour. He was a very thoughtful and organized collector, and his careful documentation of his collection is particularly noteworthy. The previous owners and the exact dates are often noted on his labels – and it is noticeable that Dr. Jung obviously had good contacts to numerous well-known collectors of his time, for example Louis Perloff, Curt G. Segeler Juan A. Olsacher, Wolfgang Bartelke, Walter R. Kahn, Hans-Anton Stalder, Rudy W. Tschernich, Richard S. W. Braithwaite, Roberto Allori and many others. He also had good contacts with renowned institutions such as Harvard, the Natural History Museum in London, Paris, Wien, Graz (Joanneum), Freiberg and Bern. He assembled his core collection between the 1960s and the end of the 1980s. His approach to collecting significant specimens, as well as his numerous contacts, contributed to making his collection something truly special.
