GERHARD VOM

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• GERHARD VOM RATH (183o-1888)

RATH (183o-1888)  , German mineralogist, was born at Dinsburg in Prussia, on the loth of August 183o . He was educated at Cologne, at Bonn University, and finally at Berlin, where he graduated Ph.D. in 1853 . In 1856 he became assistant to Noggerath in the mineralogical museum at Bonn, and succeeded to the directorship in 1872 . Mean-while in 1863 he was appointed extraordinary professor of geology, and in 1872 he became professor of geology and mineralogy in the university at Bonn . He was distinguished for his accurate researches on mineralogy and crystallography; he described a great many new minerals, some of which were discovered by him, and he contributed largely to our know-ledge of other minerals, notably in an essay on tridymite . He travelled much in southern Europe, Palestine and the United States, and wrote several essays on petrology, geology and physical geography, on earthquakes and on meteorites . He died at Coblenz on the 23rd of April 1888 . His separate publications included Ein Ausflug each Kalabrien (1871); Der Monzoni im sudostlichen Tirol (1875); and Durch Italien and Griechenland nach dem Heiligen Land (2 vols., '882) . See Obituary with bibliography by Professor H . Laspeyres, in Sitzungsbericht des nat . Vereins der preussischen Rheinlande (1888) .