Gustav Adolph Kenngott

Gustav Adolph Kenngott (January 6, 1818 – March 7, 1897) was a German mineralogist.

Biography

Kenngott was born at Breslau. After being employed in the Hofmineralien-Cabinett at Vienna, he became professor of mineralogy in the university of Zürich. He was distinguished for his researches on mineralogy, crystallography and petrology. In 1855, from the serpentine of Mount Zdjar near Schönberg in Moravia, Kenngott was the first to describe enstatite. In 1860 he identified a new mineral, giving it the name pisanite in honor of Felice Pisani. Kenngott died at Lugano.

Publications

• Lehrbuch der reinen Krystallographie (1846)
• Lehrbuch der Mineralogie (1852 and 1857; 5th ed., 1880)
• Übersicht der Resultate mineralogischer Forschungen in den Jahren 1844-1865 (7 vols., 1852-1868)
• Die Minerale der Schweiz (1866)
• Elemente der Petrographie (1868)

References

•  This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press.

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