!!!Mohs, Friedrich

b. Gernrode (Germany), Jan. 29, 1773, 
d. Agordo near Belluno (Italy), Sept. 29, 1839 mineralogist and 
mining expert. Founder of scientific mineralogy and geognostical land 
survey in Austria; from 1802 professor in Vienna, from 1811 director 
of the Joanneum and initiator of systematic geo-scientific studies of 
the province of Styria; 1818 taught at Freiberg (Saxony), 1826 taught 
in Vienna, 1835 head of the  Mining and Metallurgy Museum in Vienna. 
Introduced a mineral system based on merely external features and the 
"Mohs scale of hardness"; extensive mineralogical-geological research 
work in Austria.

!Works
Versuch einer Elementar-Methode zur naturhistorischen 
Bestimmung und Erkennung von Fossilien, 1812; Grundriss der 
Mineralogie, 2 parts, 1822/1824; Leichtfassliche Anfangsgruende der 
Naturgeschichte des Mineralreiches, 1832.

!Literature
OeBL; NDB.



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