Carl Friedrich Naumann

Georg Amadeus Carl Friedrich Naumann, known as Carl Friedrich Naumann, was a German mineralogist and geologist born May 30, 1797, in Dresden, Electorate of Saxony, who died November 26, 1873, in Leipzig, Saxony, Germany, and who studied under Abraham Gottlob Werner at Freiberg before teaching at Jena from 1823 and Leipzig from 1824, succeeding Friedrich Mohs as professor of crystallography in 1826, adding a professorship in geognosy at Freiberg in 1835, and becoming professor of mineralogy and geognosy at the University of Leipzig in 1842. He produced a geological map of Saxony with Bernhard von Cotta in 1846, published a series of textbooks on mineralogy, crystallography and geognosy between 1824 and 1872, and introduced the crystallographic term enantiomer in his 1856 crystallography treatise; sketches from his 1821 to 1822 travels in Norway were admired and used by the painters Caspar David Friedrich and Carl Gustav Carus. He was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 1869 and named a foreign honorary member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1873, and he received the Wollaston Medal in 1868; the lunar crater Naumann is named in his honor.