Wilhelm von Haidinger

Abstract

WILHELM VON HAIDINGER is no more. He died after some years of failing health, though the illness to which he finally succumbed on the 19th of March was a short one. Among his veteran contemporaries in the mineralogist's craft, such as Breithaupt, Karl F. Naumann, Gustav Rose, and Karl C. von Leonhard, he must have stood second on the ladder of time, the venerable Breithaupt being some four years his senior. His father, Karl Haidinger, was a mineralogist, and indeed was for several years Professor of Mining at Schemnitz. But, while Wilhelm was yet an infant, his father died at Vienna, where he had, in his latter days, filled a post in the Imperial Mint.