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BARON VON WOLFGANG XAVER See also: German mineralogist, was See also: born at See also: Munich on the 19th of See also: July 1803
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He studied chemistry and See also: mineralogy at See also: Landshut (1820-1823), and in 1826 became professor of mineralogy in the university of Munich
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He introduced some new methods of See also: mineral analyses, and in 1855 invented the stauroscope for the study of the See also: optical properties of crystals
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He contributed numerous papers to scientific See also: journals, and described many new minerals
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He died at Munich on the 1th of See also: November, 1882
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PuBL1cATfoxs.-Charakteristik der Mineralien (2 vols
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1830-1831) ; Tafeln zur Bestimmung der Mineralien &c
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(1833; and later See also: editions, ed
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12, by K
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Oebbeke, 1884); Grundzuge der Mineralogie (1838); Geschichte der Mineralogie von z6go-1860 (1864)
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