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RATH, GERHARD VOM (183o-1888)

This article appears in Volume V22, Page 916 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: PYR-RAY
RATH, GERHARD VOM (183o-1888) , German mineralogist, was born at Dinsburg in
Prussia
 , on the loth of August 183o. He was educated at Cologne, at
Bonn
  University, and finally at Berlin, where he graduated Ph.D. in 1853. In 1856 he became assistant to Noggerath in the mineralogical museum at
Bonn
 , and succeeded to the directorship in 1872. Mean-while in 1863 he was appointed extraordinary professor of geology, and in 1872 he became professor of geology and
mineralogy
  in the university at Bonn. He was distinguished for his accurate researches on
mineralogy
  and crystallography; he described a
great
  many new minerals, some of which were discovered by him, and he contributed largely to our know-ledge of other minerals, notably in an essay on
tridymite
 . He travelled much in southern Europe, Palestine and the United States, and wrote several essays on
petrology
 , geology and
physical
  geography, on earthquakes and on meteorites. He died at Coblenz on the 23rd of
April
  1888.
His
separate
  publications included Ein Ausflug each Kalabrien (1871); Der Monzoni im sudostlichen
Tirol
  (1875); and Durch
Italien and Griechenland nach dem Heiligen Land (2 vols., '882). See Obituary with bibliography by Professor H. Laspeyres, in Sitzungsbericht des nat. Vereins der preussischen Rheinlande (1888).


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