KARL

FRIEDRICH

See also:

• AUGUST (originally Sextilis)

AUGUST

See also:

• KARL FRIEDRICH AUGUST RAMMELSBERG (1813-1899)

RAMMELSBERG (1813-1899)  , German mineralogist, was born at Berlin on the 1st of April 1813 . He was educated for the medical profession and graduated in 1837 at Berlin University . In 1841 he became privatdozent in the university, and in 1845 professor extra-ordinary of chemistry . This post he relinquished in 1851 to take the chair of chemistry and mineralogy at the Royal Industrial Institute . In 1874 he was appointed professor of inorganic chemistry, and director of the second chemical laboratory at Berlin . Distinguished for his researches on mineralogy, crystallography and analytical chemistry, he laboured also at metallurgy, and yet found time for a series of important textbooks, in which his learning and sound judgment were combined with a lucid and accurate statement of facts . He was author of Handworterbuch des chemischen Teils der Mineralogie (2 vols., 1841; supp . 1843–53); Lehrbuch der chemischen Metallurgie (185o); Handbuch der Krystallographischen Chemie (1855); Handbuch der Mineralchemie (186o); Handbuch der Krystallographisch-physikalischen Chemie (2 vols., 1881–82), some of the earlier works being incorporated in later and more comprehensive volumes with different titles . He died at Gross Lichterfelde, near Berlin, on the 28th of December 1899 .