Gustav Adolph Kenngott was a German

Germany

Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...

 mineralogist

Mineralogy

Mineralogy is the study of chemistry, crystal structure, and physical properties of minerals. Specific studies within mineralogy include the processes of mineral origin and formation, classification of minerals, their geographical distribution, as well as their utilization.-History:Early writing...

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He was born at Breslau. After being employed in the Hofmineralien-Cabinett at
Vienna

Vienna

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, he became professor of mineralogy in the university of Zürich

Zürich

Zurich is the largest city in Switzerland and the capital of the canton of Zurich. It is located in central Switzerland at the northwestern tip of Lake Zurich...

. He was distinguished for his researches on mineralogy, crystallography and petrology. In 1855, from the serpentine of Mount Zdjar near Schönberg

Šumperk

Šumperk is a town and district in the Olomouc Region of the Czech Republic. It is called "The Gate to Jeseníky mountains."- History :Šumperk was founded by German colonists in 1269. The German name Schönberg means "beautiful hill", and the name Šumperk is a Czech garbling of the original German...

 in Moravia

Moravia

Moravia is a historical region in Central Europe in the east of the Czech Republic, and one of the former Czech lands, together with Bohemia and Silesia. It takes its name from the Morava River which rises in the northwest of the region...

, Kenngott was the first to describe enstatite

Enstatite

Enstatite is the magnesium endmember of the pyroxene silicate mineral series enstatite - ferrosilite . The magnesium rich members of the solid solution series are common rock-forming minerals found in igneous and metamorphic rocks...

. In 1860 he identified a new mineral, giving it the name pisanite in honor of Felice Pisani. Kenngott died at Lugano

Lugano

Lugano is a city of inhabitants in the city proper and a total of over 145,000 people in the agglomeration/city region, in the south of Switzerland, in the Italian-speaking canton of Ticino, which borders Italy...

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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)

External links

• http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gustav_Adolf_Kenngott
• http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pisanite