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

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