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ABICH  ,

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OTTO- WILHELM
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HERMANN VON (18o6-1886),
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German mineralogist and geologist, was
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born at
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Berlin on the 11th of
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December 18o6, and educated at the university in that
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city . His earliest scientific
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work related to spinels and other minerals, and later he made
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special studies of fumaroles, of the
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mineral deposits around volcanic vents and of the structure of volcanoes . In 1842 he was appointed
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professor of
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mineralogy in the university of Dorpat, and henceforth gave
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attention to the
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geology and mineralogy of
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Russia . Residing for some
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time at
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Tiflis he investigated the geology of the
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Caucasus . Ultimately he retired to
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Vienna, where he died on the 1st of
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July 1886 . The mineral Abichite was named after him .

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