Wolfgang Franz von Kobell

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Wolfgang Xavier Franz Ritter von Kobell (19 July 1803 – 11 November 1882) was a German

Kobell was born in

Kobell's writing shows great comic awareness and the ability to combine a rich sense of fantasy with realism. 1834 Kobell went for a study journey to Greece during the short term kingdom of King Otto of Greece and was member of different academies. He pioneered as well early photographic and photochemistry procedures together with Carl August von Steinheil.^[6]

Works

Scientific

• Charakteristik der Mineralien (2 vols. 1830–1831)
• Tafeln zur Bestimmung der Mineralien (1833, and later editions; 12th ed. by Konrad Oebbeke, 1884; 13th ed. 1893)
• Grundzüge der Mineralogie (1838)
• Galvanographie (1842; 2d ed. 1846), describing a method of his own invention
• Skizzen aus dem Steinreich (1850)
• Die Mineralogie (1858) Digital edition by the University and State Library Düsseldorf
• Mineralogie: Populäre Vorträge (1862)
• Geschichte der Mineralogie von 1650–1860 (1864)

He was also the author of numerous scientific papers, and described many new minerals.

Works in dialect

• Schnadahüpfln und Sprüchln (2d ed. 1852)
• Gedichte in pfälzischer Mundart (1839–41)
• Jagd- und Weinlieder (1889)

See also

• List of mineralogists

Notes

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References

• Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Kobell, Wolfgang Xaver Franz, Baron von" . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 15 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 884.

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• This article incorporates text from a publication now in the
  New International Encyclopedia
  (1st ed.). New York: Dodd, Mead.

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• O. Krätz (October 1978). "Das Portrait: Franz Ritter von Kobell (1803–1882)". Chemie in unserer Zeit. 12 (5). Wiley: 153–160.
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