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GUSTAV ADOLPH KENNGOTT (1818-1897)

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Originally appearing in Volume V15, Page 732 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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GUSTAV ADOLPH

KENNGOTT (1818-1897)  , German mineralogist, was born at Breslau on the 6th of
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January 1818, After being employed in the Hofmineralien
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Cabinet at Vienna, he became professor of
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mineralogy in the university of Zurich, He was distinguished for his researches on mineralogy, crystallography and
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petrology . He died at Lugano, on the 7th of March 1897 . PuBL1cATI0NS.—Lehrbuch der reinen Krystallographie ..(1846) ; Lehrbuch der Mineralogie (1852 and 1857; 5th ed., 188o); Ubersicht der Resultate mineralogischer Forschungen in den Jahren 1844–z 86g (7 vols., 1852–1868) ; Die Minerale der Schweiz (1866) ; Elemente der Petrographie (1868) .

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