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QUENSTEDT, See also:FRIEDRICH See also:AUGUST VON (1809–1889) , See also:German geologist and palaeontologist, was See also:born at See also:Eisleben in See also:Saxony on the gth of See also:July 1809. He was educated at See also:Berlin, and after having acted as assistant in the mineralogical museum he was appointed See also:professor of See also:mineralogy and geognosy in the university of See also:Tubingen in 1837, a See also:post which he occupied until his See also:death. His earlier See also:work related chiefly to See also:crystallography and mineralogy, on which subjects he published See also:text-books that were widely used. He became distinguished for his researches on palaeontology, and especially for those on the fossils of the See also:Jurassic See also:system. The museum at Tubingen owed its See also:establishment to his exertions. He died at Tubingen on the 21st of See also:December 1889. His See also:chief publications were: Method der Krystallographie (184o); Das Flozgebirge Wurttembergs (1843); Petrefactenkunde Deutschlands (7 vols. and atlases, 1846–84) ; See also:Die Cephalopoden (1846–49); Handbuch der Petrefactenkunde (2 vols., 1852, 3rd ed. 1882–85) ; Der See also:Jura (2 vols., 1858) ; Handbuch der Mineralogie (1855, 3rd ed. 1877) ; Die Ammoniten See also:des Schwdbischen Jura (1883–84). Obituary by W. T. See also:Blandford, Quart.

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Soc. vol. xlvi., 1890.

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