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QUENSTEDT, FRIEDRICH AUGUST VON (18091889)

This article appears in Volume V22, Page 741 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: PYR-RAY
QUENSTEDT, FRIEDRICH AUGUST VON (18091889) ,
German
  geologist and palaeontologist, was born at Eisleben in
Saxony
  on the gth of July 1809. He was educated at Berlin, and after having acted as assistant in the mineralogical museum he was appointed professor of
mineralogy
  and geognosy in the university of
Tubingen
  in 1837, a post which he occupied until his death. His earlier
work
  related chiefly to crystallography and
mineralogy
 , on which subjects he published text-books that were widely used. He became distinguished for his researches on palaeontology, and especially for those on the fossils of the Jurassic
system
 . The museum at
Tubingen
  owed its
establishment
  to his exertions. He died at Tubingen on the 21st of December 1889.
His
chief
  publications were: Method der Krystallographie (184o); Das Flozgebirge Wurttembergs (1843); Petrefactenkunde Deutschlands (7 vols. and atlases, 184684) ; Die Cephalopoden (184649); Handbuch der Petrefactenkunde (2 vols., 1852, 3rd ed. 188285) ; Der Jura (2 vols., 1858) ; Handbuch der Mineralogie (1855, 3rd ed. 1877) ; Die Ammoniten des Schwdbischen Jura (188384). Obituary by W. T. Blandford, Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc. vol. xlvi., 1890.


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