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NAUMANN, GEORG AMADEUS CARL FRIEDRICH (1797-1873)

This article appears in Volume V19, Page 278 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

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NAUMANN, GEORG AMADEUS CARL FRIEDRICH (1797-1873) ,
German
  mineralogist and geologist, was born at Dresden on the 3oth of May 1797, the son of a distinguished musician and composer. He received his early
education
  at Pforta, studied at Freiberg under Werner, and afterwards at
Leipzig
  and Jena. He graduated at Jena, and was occupied in 1823 in teaching in that town and in 1824 at
Leipzig
 . In 1826 he succeeded Mohs as professor of crystallography, in 1835 he became professor also of geognosy at Freiberg; and in 1842 he was appointed professor of
mineralogy
  and geognosy in the university of Leipzig. At Freiberg he was charged with the preparation of a
geological
  map of
Saxony
 , which he carried out with the aid of Bernhard von Cotta in 1846. He was a man- of encyclopaedic knowledge, lucid and fluent as a teacher. Early in
life
  (18211822) he travelled in Norway-, and his observations on that country, and his subsequent publications on crystallography,
mineralogy
  and
geology
  established his reputation. He was awarded the Wollaston
Medal
  by the
Geological
  Society of London in 1868. He died at Leipzig on the 26th of November 1873.
He published Beitrage zur Kenntniss Norwegens (2 vols., 1824) ; Lehrbuch der Mineralogie (1828); Lehrbuch der reinen and angewandten Krystallographie (2 vols. and
atlas
 , 183o) ; Elemente der Mineralogie (1846; ed. 9, 1874; the loth ed. 'by F. Zirkel, 1877); Lehrbuch der Geognosie (2 vols. and
atlas
 , 1849-1854, ed. 2, 1858-1872).


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