Friedrich Martin Berwerth, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Friedrich Martin Berwerth

Austrian mineralogist

Date of Birth: 16-Nov-1850

Place of Birth: Sighișoara, Mureș County, Romania

Date of Death: 22-Sep-1918

Profession: professor, mineralogist

Nationality: Austria

Zodiac Sign: Scorpio

Friedrich Martin Berwerth (16 November 1850, Schäßburg – 22 September 1918, Vienna) was an Austrian mineralogist and petrographer known for his work with meteorites.He was a student at the Universities of Vienna, Graz and Heidelberg, and following graduation, worked as an assistant to Gustav Tschermak von Seysenegg at the Mineralogisch-Petrographischen Institut in Vienna (1874).
Later the same year, he began work as an assistant at the Imperial Hofmineralien Cabinet.
In 1888 he became a curator, followed by titles of leiter (1895) and director (1904) of the mineralogy-petrography department.From 1888 he was a privat-docent of petrography at the University of Vienna, where in 1894, he became an associate professor, and in 1907, attained a full professorship.
In 1901, with August von Loehr, he founded the Wiener Mineralogische Gesellschaft (in 1947 the name of the association was changed to Österreichische Mineralogische Gesellschaft).