Albrecht Schrauf
Albrecht Schrauf ( born December 14, 1837 in Wieden, today part of Vienna, † November 29, 1897 in Vienna ) was an Austrian mineralogist.
Life
Albrecht Schrauf attended high school in Wiener Neustadt and Krems on the Danube. In 1853 he joined the Piarist, but left that after high school again. At the University of Vienna, he studied from 1852 to 1856 physics, mathematics, mineralogy and botany, among others, also with Wilhelm Josef Grailich.
In 1862 he was at the University of Tübingen Mag liberalium of Arts and received a doctorate in phil. He was Kustosadjunkt on k.k. Hofmineralienkabinett. Already in 1863 he completed his habilitation at the University of Vienna for physical mineralogy. In 1867 he was second in the following year, the first curator of the mineral cabinet. 1862 and 1869 he received calls to the Lviv University, which he refused. In 1874, he was both a full professor and director of the Mineralogical Museum at the University of Vienna. In 1887/1888 he was also Dean of the Faculty.
In the years 1863/1864 he started in the course of study tours to cataloging the mineral and crystal collection Archduke Stephen in Schaumburg castle in Hesse. After the Archduke in 1867 but died, he could not finish the job. Even his Atlas, for which he newly created all crystal images, he could not finish because of financial reasons.
Subsequently, he worked primarily with the chemical composition of minerals. The Institute he extended especially with new teaching aids.
In 1896, he was blinded in an accident in one eye. Also on the second eye lost Schrauf the following year quickly eyesight. As a result, he was very shy and lonely contact.
Schrauf died on 29 November 1897 in Vienna and rests in a grave of honor in Vienna 's Central Cemetery (Group 72 D).
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Others
Already in 1875 a Bernsteinvarietät from Romania by Julius Freiherr von Schröck Inger after him as Schraufit, and another mineral was called Albrechtschraufit.
In Vienna's 15th district, the Schraufgasse was named after him in 1912.