Sten Anders Hjalmar Sjögren (13 June 1856, Färnebo, Värmland – 23 March 1922,

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mineralogist Mineralogy is a subject of geology specializing in the scientific study of the chemistry, crystal structure, and physical (including optical) properties of minerals and mineralized artifacts. Specific studies within mineralogy include the proces ...

Biography

Sten Anders Hjalmar Sjögren became associate professor of mineralogy and geology at

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from 1882-84. He studied in

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and

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in 1883. From 1885-89 was staff geologist at the

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company in

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. In these years he travelled in the

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and

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. He was appointed full professor of mineralogy and geology in Uppsala in 1888 but he resigned from this post in 1894. From 1892 he published at his family expense, the journal "Bulletin of the Geological Department of the University of Uppsala." In 1903 he was appointed curator (after

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) at the

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mineralogy department where his collection is conserved. Sjögren published numerous papers in mineralogy and geology in foreign journals and worked on the third edition of his father's ''Textbook of Mineralogy of elementary-secondary school and technical schools'' (1880).

References

*''Nordisk familjebok 1904–1926'', Sjögren, Sten Anders Hjalma

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