!!!Schrötter von Kristelli, Anton

b. Olomouc, Czech Republic (then Olmuetz), Nov. 26, 1802, 
d. Vienna, April 15, 1875, chemist and mineralogist. From 1830 
university professor in Graz, from 1843 in Vienna; 1851 general 
secretary of the Academy of Sciences, 1868 director of the Austrian 
Mint. Was the first to describe non-poisonous red phosphorus, thus 
created a new basis for the production of matches. S. v. K. was active 
as an organiser in both industry and science and also acted as adviser 
for the preparations of the  Novara Expedition around the globe and 
the Austrian-Hungarian  North Pole Expedition. Reminders of S. v. K.'s 
work today are, for example, the mineral schroetterite, the S.-Horn in 
the Ortler group in the Italian Alps, the S.-Joch saddle and a Cape S. 
on Franz Josef Land.

!Works
Ueber einen neuen allotropischen Zustand des Phosphors, 1849; 
Die Chemie in ihrem gegenwaertigen Zustande, 2 vols., 1847/1849.

!Literature
A. Bauer, A. v. S., 1917.



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