- Gerhard vom Rath
Gerhard vom Rath (
August 20 ,1830 -April 23 ,1888 ), was a Germanmineralogist , born at Duisburg inPrussia .He was educated at
Cologne , atBonn University , and finally atBerlin , where he graduatedPh.D. in 1853. In 1856 he became assistant to Noggerath in themineral ogical museum atBonn , and succeeded to the directorship in 1872. Meanwhile in 1863 he was appointed extraordinary professor ofgeology , and in 1872 he became professor of geology and mineralogy in the university at Bonn. He was distinguished for his accurate researches on mineralogy andcrystallography ; he described a great many new minerals, some of which were discovered by him, and he contributed largely to our knowledge of other minerals, notably in an essay ontridymite . He travelled much in southernEurope ,Palestine and theUnited States , and wrote several essays onpetrology , geology and physical geography, onearthquake s and onmeteorite s. He died atKoblenz in 1888.Work
*"Ein Ausflug nach Kalabrien" (Bonn 1871)
*"Der Monzoni im südlichen Tirol" (1875)
*"Siebenbürgen" (Heidelberg 1880)
*"Durch Italien und Griechenland nach dem Heiligen Land", Reisebriefe (Heidelberg 1882, 2 vols.)
*"Arizona" (Heidelberg 1885)
*"Pennsylvanien" (Heidelberg 1888)
*"Über den Granit" (Berlin. 1878)
*"Über das Gold" (Berlin 1879)
*"Naturwissenschaftliche Studien. Erinnerungen an die Pariser Weltausstellung" (Bonn 1879).See also: Laspeyres, Gerhard vom Rath, eine Lebensskizze (Bonn 1888)
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