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RAMMELSBERG, KARL FRIEDRICH AUGUST (1813-1899)

RAMMELSBERG, KARL See also:
FRIEDRICH, JOHANN (1836— )
FRIEDRICH See also:
AUGUST (originally Sextilis)
AUGUST (1813-1899) , See also:

German mineralogist, was See also:

BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born at See also:

Berlin on the 1st of See also:

APRIL

April 1813. He was educated for the medical profession and graduated in 1837 at Berlin University. In 1841 he became privatdozent in the university, and in 1845 See also:

PROFESSOR (the Latin noun formed from the verb profiteri, to declare publicly, to acknowledge, profess)

professor extra-See also:

ORDINARY (med. Lat. ordinarius, Fr. ordinaire)

ordinary of See also:

chemistry. This See also:

POST

post he relinquished in 1851 to take the See also:

CHAIR (in. Mid. Eng. chcere, through O. Fr. chaire or chaiere, from Lat. cathedra, later caledra, Gr. xaOi3pa, seat, cf. "cathedral"; the modern Fr. form chaise, a chair, has been adopted in English with a particular meaning as a form of carriage; chaire

chair of chemistry and See also:

MINERALOGY

mineralogy at the Royal See also:

INDUSTRIAL

Industrial See also:

INSTITUTE (from Lat. instituere, to establish or set up)

Institute. In 1874 he was appointed professor of inorganic chemistry, and director of the second chemical laboratory at Berlin. Distinguished for his researches on mineralogy, See also:

crystallography and See also:

ANALYTICAL

analytical chemistry, he laboured also at metallurgy, and yet found See also:

time for a See also:

SERIES (a Latin word from serere, to join)

series of important textbooks, in which his learning and See also:

sound See also:

JUDGMENT

judgment were combined with a lucid and accurate statement of facts. He was author of Handworterbuch See also:

des chemischen Teils der Mineralogie (2 vols., 1841; supp. 1843–53); Lehrbuch der chemischen Metallurgie (185o); Handbuch der Krystallographischen Chemie (1855); Handbuch der Mineralchemie (186o); Handbuch der Krystallographisch-physikalischen Chemie (2 vols., 1881–82), some of the earlier See also:

WORKS

works being incorporated in later and more comprehensive volumes with different titles. He died at See also:

GROSS

Gross Lichterfelde, near Berlin, on the 28th of See also:

DECEMBER (Lat. decent, ten)

December 1899.

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