(Karl) Heinrich/Harry (Ferdinand) Rosenbusch (24 June 1836 – 20 January 1914) was a

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petrographer Petrography is a branch of petrology that focuses on detailed descriptions of rocks. Someone who studies petrography is called a petrographer. The mineral content and the textural relationships within the rock are described in detail. The class ...

. Harry Rosenbusch was born in

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. He taught at

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(1877–1908), where he founded the ''Mineralogisches-geologisches Institut''. He died, aged 77, in

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Literary works

* ''Mikroskopische Physiographie der petrographisch wichtigen Mineralien'', 1873 * ''Mikroskopische Physiographie der Mineralien und Gesteine'', 4 Vols., 1873-1877 * ''Elemente der Gesteinslehre'', 1898 * ''Mikroskopische Physiographie'' (4th ed., Stuttgart, 1909, 2 vols.)

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* — He is mention a number of times in the article specifically: "the more basic minerals precede the less basic; ... is known as Rosenbusch's law" (p. 330).
Microscope after Fuess-Rosenbusch
introduced as first German petrographic microscope, Berlin approx. 1880 1836 births 1914 deaths 19th-century German geologists People from Einbeck Wollaston Medal winners Foreign associates of the National Academy of Sciences Members of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences and Humanities {{geologist-stub