Alexander Sadebeck, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Alexander Sadebeck

German geologist and mineralogist

Date of Birth: 26-Jun-1843

Place of Birth: Wrocław, Lower Silesian Voivodeship, Poland

Date of Death: 09-Dec-1879

Profession: geologist, university teacher, mineralogist

Nationality: Germany

Zodiac Sign: Cancer

Alexander Sadebeck (26 June 1843 in Breslau – 9 December 1879 in Hamburg) was a German geologist and mineralogist.
He was a brother of botanist Richard Sadebeck (1839–1905). He studied mineralogy and geology at the University of Berlin as a pupil of Gustav Rose.
In 1865 he received his doctorate with a dissertation on Upper Jurassic formations in Pomerania.
In 1872 he was appointed professor of mineralogy and geology at the University of Kiel.In 1873 he published a new edition of Gustav Rose's Elemente der Krystallographie ("Elements of Crystallography").
He was also editor of the section on geology in Karl Klaus von der Decken's Reisen in Ost-Afrika ("Journeys in East Africa").
Furthermore, he was the author of noted works on tetrahedrite, the crystallization of galena, the crystalline forms of chalcopyrite, etc.