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Ludwik Zejszner
Ludwik Zejszner born Ludwig Zeuschner (c. 1805 – 3 January 1871) was a Prussian geologist, paleontologist and mineralogist. He is considered a pioneer of cartographic approaches to geology. He taught mineralogy at Warsaw and was a specialist on the Tatra Mountains in the Carpathians where he was also involved in conservation. Life and work Zeuschner was born in Warsaw in a family of chemists of German descent who had settled in Skwierzyna, near Poznań and served in the court of Poniatowski as a court pharmacist. He graduated in 1822 from Linde High School (Lycaeum) and went to the University of Warsaw. In 1824 he went to Berlin, while also attending lectures in Göttingen and Heidelberg including those of Humboldt and Hegel. He received a doctorate in 1829 from Heidelberg with a dissertation on chemical mixtures in crystallization. Returning to Poland he took the Polish form of his surname Zejszner and joined the newly formed Mineralogy Department at the Jagiellonian Uni ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1805 Births
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19th-century German Geographers
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