Adolf Knop, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Adolf Knop

German geologist

Date of Birth: 12-Jan-1828

Place of Birth: Altenau, Lower Saxony, Germany

Date of Death: 27-Dec-1893

Profession: geologist, university teacher, mineralogist

Nationality: German Empire

Zodiac Sign: Capricorn

Adolf Knop (12 January 1828, in Altenau – 27 December 1893, in Karlsruhe) was a German geologist and mineralogist. He studied mathematics and sciences at the University of Göttingen, where he was a pupil of chemist Friedrich Wohler and mineralogist Johann Friedrich Ludwig Hausmann.
From 1849 he taught classes at the vocational school in Chemnitz.
In 1857 he became an associate professor of geology and mineralogy at the University of Giessen, where in 1863 he attained a full professorship.
In 1866 he relocated to Karlsruhe as a professor at the Polytechnic school.
In 1878 he succeeded Moritz August Seubert as manager of the Grand Ducal Natural History Cabinet.He was a catalyst towards the establishment of the Oberrheinischer Geologischer Verein (Upper Rhine Geological Society).
A cerium-rich variety of perovskite called "knopite" is named after him.