Gustav Adolph Kenngott
Gustav Adolf Kenngott (* 1818 in Breslau, † March 4, 1897 in Lugano, name variant Johann Gustav Adolph Kenngott ) was a mineralogist.
Life
His father was a glover and came from Reutlingen. From 1830 to 1838 Gustav Adolf Kenngott visited the Breslauer Mary Magdalene school. He studied from 1838 Science at the University of Breslau. In 1842 he received his doctorate of philosophy.
From 1844 to 1850 he worked as a lecturer at the University of Breslau. From 1850 to 1852 he was a teacher at the secondary school of Bratislava. This was followed by a position as curator of the mineral collections of the Imperial Hofmineraliencabinets in Vienna from 1852 to 1856.
From 1857 to 1893 he was also professor of mineralogy at the ETH Zurich and the University of Zurich. From 1875 to 1881 he was rector of the poly, as the ETH Zurich was then called.
Gustav Adolf Kenngott was a member of the Leopoldina, and a member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and the Russian Academy of Sciences (St. Petersburg) since 1852.
Work
Gustav Adolf Kenngott merits gained in the development of petrology and mineralogy to modern science. The focus of his work lay in systematic mineralogical investigations in the Carpathian region. He is the author of several textbooks on petrography and mineralogy, as well as the first to describe several newly discovered minerals such as acanthite, enstatite grunerite Hydrozincite, piemontite and Pilsenit. He also shaped the final name as among other Freibergite, galena and Hemimorphite for different minerals.
Writings
- Tabular Guide mineralogy Zurich 1859.
- Elements of petrography: for the use in lectures and self-study, Leipzig 1868.
- Elementary Mineralogy: particularly illustrated easily comprehensible for the purpose of self-study, Stuttgart 1890
- Textbook of Mineralogy: for the use in teaching in schools and higher educational establishments. Darmstadt
- V. Kurr 's Mineral Kingdom in pictures, Zurich 1878. revision of the third edition (available online as PDF 3.5 MB)