Theodor Liebisch
Theodor Liebisch (29 April 1852, Breslau – 9 February 1922, Berlin) was a German mineralogist and crystallographer.
Biography[edit]
In 1874 he received his doctorate from the University of Breslau, then worked as an assistant to Gerhard vom Rath at the University of Bonn. After several years spent as a curator at the mineralogical museum of the University of Berlin, he became an associate professor of mineralogy at Breslau (1880). Afterwards he successively served as a full professor of mineralogy at the universities of Greifswald (1883/84), Königsberg (from 1884), Göttingen (1887–1909) and Berlin (1909–22). He was an editor of the periodical "Jahrbuch für Mineralogie, Geologie und Paläontologie".[1][2]
His name is associated with "Liebisch twinning", a complex type of crystal twinning that is a combination of the Dauphiné and Brazil twinning laws.[3]
Principal works[edit]
- Geometrische krystallographie, 1881 – Geometric crystallography.
- Physikalische krystallographie, 1891 – Physical crystallography.
- Grundriss der physikalischen Krystallographie, 1896 – Outline of physical crystallography.
- Die synthese der mineralien und gesteine, 1901 – The synthesis of minerals and rocks.[4]
References[edit]
- ^ Sammlungen, Humboldt - Berlin (biographical information)
- ^ Theodor Liebisch The Mineralogical Record - Library
- ^ Frequency of Quartz Twins American Mineralogist Volume 34, pages 142-162, 1949
- ^ HathiTrust Digital Library published works
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