See also:

• BARON
• BARON (1835-1895)
• BARON, MICHEL (1653—1729)

BARON VON WOLFGANG XAVER See also:

• FRANZ, ROBERT (1815-1892)

FRANZ See also:

• BARON VON WOLFGANG XAVER FRANZ KOBELL (1803-1882)

KOBELL (1803-1882)  , See also:

• GERMAN
• GERMAN, DUTCH AND SCANDINAVIAN

German mineralogist, was See also:

• BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born at See also:

• MUNICH (Ger. Munchen)

Munich on the 19th of See also:

• JULY

July 1803 . He studied See also:

• CHEMISTRY
• CHEMISTRY (formerly "chymistry"; Gr. xvµela; for derivation see ALCHEMY)

chemistry and See also:

• MINERALOGY

mineralogy at See also:

• LANDSHUT

Landshut (1820-1823), and in 1826 became See also:

• PROFESSOR (the Latin noun formed from the verb profiteri, to declare publicly, to acknowledge, profess)

professor of mineralogy in the university of Munich . He introduced some new methods of See also:

• MINERAL

mineral analyses, and in 1855 invented the stauroscope for the study of the See also:

• OPTICAL

optical properties of crystals . He contributed numerous papers to scientific See also:

• JOURNALS

journals, and described many new minerals . He died at Munich on the 1th of See also:

• NOVEMBER (Lat. novem, nine)

November, 1882 . PuBL1cATfoxs.-Charakteristik der Mineralien (2 vols . 1830-1831) ; Tafeln zur Bestimmung der Mineralien &c . (1833; and later See also:

• EDITIONS

editions, ed . 12, by K . Oebbeke, 1884); Grundzuge der Mineralogie (1838); Geschichte der Mineralogie von z6go-1860 (1864) .