Arnold von Lasaulx

Arnold Constantin Peter Franz von Lasaulx (14 June 1839 – 25 January 1886) was a German mineralogist and petrographer.

He was born at Kastellaun near Coblenz, and educated at the University of Berlin, where he took his Ph. D. in 1868. In 1871 he became professor of mineralogy at Breslau, and in 1880 professor of mineralogy and geology at Bonn. He was distinguished for his researches on minerals and on crystallography, and he was one of the earlier workers on microscopic petrography. He described in 1878 the eruptive rocks of the district of Saar and Moselle. In 1880 he edited Der Aetna from the MSS. a Dr Wolfgang Sartorius von Waltershausen, the results of observation made between the years 1834-1869. He was author of Element der Petrographie (1875), Einführung in die Gesteinslehre (1885), and Precis de pitrographie (1887). He died at Bonn in January 1886.

Works

• Petrographische Studien an den vulkanischen Gesteinen der Auvergne (Stuttgart 1868–71);
• Das Erdbeben von Herzogenrath vom 22. Okt. 1873 (Bonn 1874);
• Das Erdbeben von Herzogenrath vom 24. Juni 1877 (Bonn 1878);
• Elemente der Petrographie(Bonn 1875);
• Über vulkanische Kraft (n. d. Engl. von Mallet, das. 1875);
• Aus Irland, Reiseskizzen und Studien (Bonn 1877);
• Sizilien. Ein geographisches Charakterbild (Bonn 1879);
• Der Ätna, nach Sartorius v. Waltershausens nachgelassenen Manuskripten selbständig herausgegeben, bearbeitet und vollendet (Leipzig 1880);
• Die Bausteine des Kölner Doms (Bonn 1882);
• Einführung in die Gesteinslehre (Berl. 1886);
• Irland und Sizilien (Berlin 1883)
• Wie das Siebengebirge entstand (1884).

References

•  This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed (1911). Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press.