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See also:FRIEDRICH See also:MOHS (1773-1839) , See also:German mineralogist, was See also:born at Gernrode in the Harz Mountains, on the 29th of See also:January 1773 . He was educated at See also:Halle, and at :the See also:mining See also:academy at See also:Freiburg . He spent much See also:time in See also:Austria in studying See also:mineralogy and mining, and became See also:professor of mineralogy at Gratz in 18i2 . On the See also:death of See also:Werner in 18'7, he was appointed to the See also:chair of mineralogy in the mining academy of Freiburg, and in 1826 he became professor of mineralogy and See also:superintendent of the Imperial See also:Cabinet at See also:Vienna . His See also:great See also:work was the Grundriss der Mineralogie (Eng. trans . See also:Treatise on Mineralogy, by Wilhelm See also:Haidinger,1825) . He died at Agardo, near See also:Belluno, See also:Italy, on the 29th of See also:September, 1839 . |
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