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ANOTHER prominent member of the brilliant school of Viennese mineralogists has passed away at an advanced age. Cornelio August Doelter, who died on Aug. 8 last, was born on Sept. 16, 1850, at Arroyo, Porto Rico, in the West Indies, where his father was a German planter and slave-owner, who had emigrated from Emmendingen in Baden. His mother, Francisca Cisterich, was Spanish, and on this account his name was sometimes given as Doelter y Cisterich. At the age of six he was taken to Paris, and he studied later at Freiburg in Baden, Heidelberg, and Vienna, graduating at Heidelberg in 1872. For a time from 1873 he was attached to the Austrian Geological Survey, and in 1875 was a privat-dozent in the University of Vienna. From 1876 until 1906 he was professor of mineralogy in the University of Graz in Styria, where in 1906 he was also Rector of the University. In 1907 he succeeded G. Tschermak as professor of mineralogy and petrography in the University of Vienna, from which post he retired with the title of emeritus professor in 1922.
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S., L. Prof. Cornelio Doelter. Nature 126, 656–657 (1930). https://doi.org/10.1038/126656b0
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