Karl August Stupid

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Karl August Blöde (also Carl August Blöde and Carl A. Blöde ; born August 14, 1773 in Freiberg (Saxony) ; † August 28, 1820 ) was a secret finance adviser, scientist and author and named after the mineral Blödit .

Blöde was the initiator of the founding of the Society for Mineralogy in Dresden , which he founded together with his brother Abraham Gottlob Werner on December 23, 1816. In 1819, Blöde also wrote the biography "Brief Nekrolog Abraham Gottlob Werner" about Werner. Blöde was also a member of the Russian Imperial Academy of Natural Scientists in Moscow and the Electoral Saxon Weimar Mineralogical Society in Jena . He had no offspring.

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  1. ↑ a b Calendar for the Saxon mountain and hut man for the year 1842 ( memento of the original of November 9, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , ed. by Königl. Bergacademie zu Freiberg, p. 79  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / tu-freiberg.de
  2. ^ Mineralogical Record Inc. , biography of Wilhelm Hisinger
  3. ↑ Zentralblatt für Bibliothekswesen , Vol. 103, Issues 1–12, Harrassowitz-Verlag 1989, p. 360.
  4. ↑ "Werner, Abraham Gottlob." Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography. 2008. Encyclopedia.com
  5. ↑ Giambattista Brocchi: J. Brocchi's mineralogical treatise on the valley of Fassa in Tyrol , Beger, 1817, p. 1
personal data
SURNAME Stupid, Karl August
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Stupid, Carl August; Stupid, Carl A.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Secret finance councilor, scientist, author and namesake of the Blödit crystal
DATE OF BIRTH August 14, 1773
PLACE OF BIRTH Freiberg (Saxony)
DATE OF DEATH August 28, 1820