GEORG AMADEUS CARL

FRIEDRICH

See also:

• GEORG AMADEUS CARL FRIEDRICH NAUMANN (1797-1873)

NAUMANN (1797-1873)  , German mineralogist and geologist, was born at Dresden on the 3oth of May 1797, the son of a distinguished musician and composer . He received his early education at Pforta, studied at Freiberg under Werner, and afterwards at Leipzig and Jena . He graduated at Jena, and was occupied in 1823 in teaching in that town and in 1824 at Leipzig . In 1826 he succeeded Mohs as professor of crystallography, in 1835 he became professor also of geognosy at Freiberg; and in 1842 he was appointed professor of mineralogy and geognosy in the university of Leipzig . At Freiberg he was charged with the preparation of a geological map of Saxony, which he carried out with the aid of Bernhard von Cotta in 1846 . He was a man- of encyclopaedic knowledge, lucid and fluent as a teacher . Early in life (1821–1822) he travelled in Norway-, and his observations on that country, and his subsequent publications on crystallography, mineralogy and geology established his reputation . He was awarded the Wollaston Medal by the Geological Society of London in 1868 . He died at Leipzig on the 26th of November 1873 . He published Beitrage zur Kenntniss Norwegens (2 vols., 1824) ; Lehrbuch der Mineralogie (1828); Lehrbuch der reinen and angewandten Krystallographie (2 vols. and atlas, 183o) ; Elemente der Mineralogie (1846; ed . 9, 1874; the loth ed . 'by F .

Zirkel, 1877); Lehrbuch der Geognosie (2 vols. and atlas, 1849-1854, ed . 2, 1858-1872) .