Gustav Adolph Kenngott

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Gustav Adolph Kenngott (January 6, 1818 - March 7, 1897) was a German mineralogist.

He was born at Breslau. After being employed in the Hofmineralien-Cabinett at Vienna, he became professor of mineralogy in the university of Zürich. He was distinguished for his researches on mineralogy, crystallography and petrology. He died at Lugano.

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• Lehrbuch der reinen Krystallographie (1846)
• Lehrbuch der Mineralogie (1852 and 1857; 5th ed., 1880)
• Übersicht der Resultate mineralogischer Forschungen in den Jahren 1844-1865 (7 vols., 1852-1868)
• Die Minerale der Schweiz (1866)
• Elemente der Petrographie (1868)

[edit] References

• This article incorporates text from the Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition, a publication now in the public domain.