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Hermann von Abich
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German-Russian mineralogist and geologist (1806-1886)
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Otto Wilhelm Hermann von Abich (1806–1886) was a German geologist, professor, botanist, and mineralogist. Born in Berlin, he held citizenship in the Kingdom of Prussia and the Russian Empire. He was educated at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, where Alexander von Humboldt served as his doctoral advisor. Abich worked in the field of geology and was employed by the Imperial University of Dorpat.
He was a member of both the Royal Prussian Academy of Sciences and the Russian Academy of Sciences. Abich spoke German and is described in sources including the Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie, the Russian Biographical Dictionary, the Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, and the Georgian Soviet Encyclopedia. He died in Vienna and was buried in Koblenz.
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- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- Germany
- Active from
- 1770-12-17
- Active to
- 1827-03-26
Discography
- Beethoven - Haydn
- Beethoven Immortal: Sonatas Para Piano 3, 12 Y 17
- Beethoven late string quartets (Volume 3)
- Beethoven: String Quintet op. 29 / Mendelssohn: String Quintet op. 87
- Beethoven/The Great Composers
- Berühmte Sinfonien Nr. 9
- Berühmte Werke
- Eroica (Symphony no. 3 in E-flat Major op. 55)1954
- Septett Es-dur1960
- Eroica-Variationen / 6 Variationen G-Dur / 32 Variationen c-moll1984
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- IQ-TREE: A Fast and Effective Stochastic Algorithm for Estimating Maximum-Likelihood Phylogenies
· 2014 · cited 24,500x
- Reproducible, interactive, scalable and extensible microbiome data science using QIIME 2
· 2019 · cited 20,879x
- The Strengthening the Reporting of Observational Studies in Epidemiology (STROBE) statement: guidelines for reporting observational studies
· 2007 · cited 17,548x
- ModelFinder: fast model selection for accurate phylogenetic estimates
· 2017 · cited 17,242x
- IQ-TREE 2: New Models and Efficient Methods for Phylogenetic Inference in the Genomic Era
· 2020 · cited 16,378x
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Key facts
- Born
- 11 December 1806 ( 1806-12-11 ) , Berlin
- Died
- 1 July 1886 (1886-07-01) (aged 79), Vienna
- Alma mater
- Humboldt University of Berlin
- Fields
- Mineralogy , geology
- Institutions
- Imperial University of Dorpat
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Encyclopedic overview
Otto Wilhelm Hermann Abich (11 December 1806 – 1 July 1886) was a German mineralogist and geologist who was among the first to conduct scientific studies in the Caucasus region and has been called the Father of Caucasian Geology. He worked briefly at the Imperial University of Dorpat and then travelled as part of the Corps of Mining Engineers of the Russian Empire. He collected minerals and fossils across the regions in which he travelled including Armenia, Persia, Italy and Daghestan.
Biography
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