FRIEDRICH

See also:

• AUGUST (originally Sextilis)

AUGUST VON

See also:

• FRIEDRICH AUGUST VON QUENSTEDT (1809–1889)

QUENSTEDT (1809–1889)  , German geologist and palaeontologist, was born at Eisleben in Saxony on the gth of July 1809 . He was educated at Berlin, and after having acted as assistant in the mineralogical museum he was appointed professor of mineralogy and geognosy in the university of Tubingen in 1837, a post which he occupied until his death . His earlier work related chiefly to crystallography and mineralogy, on which subjects he published text-books that were widely used . He became distinguished for his researches on palaeontology, and especially for those on the fossils of the Jurassic system . The museum at Tubingen owed its establishment to his exertions . He died at Tubingen on the 21st of December 1889 . His chief publications were: Method der Krystallographie (184o); Das Flozgebirge Wurttembergs (1843); Petrefactenkunde Deutschlands (7 vols. and atlases, 1846–84) ; Die Cephalopoden (1846–49); Handbuch der Petrefactenkunde (2 vols., 1852, 3rd ed . 1882–85) ; Der Jura (2 vols., 1858) ; Handbuch der Mineralogie (1855, 3rd ed . 1877) ; Die Ammoniten des Schwdbischen Jura (1883–84) . Obituary by W . T . Blandford, Quart .

Journ . Geol .

Soc. vol. xlvi., 1890 .