Alexander Sadebeck
Alexander Sadebeck was a German geologist and mineralogist. He was a brother of botanist Richard Sadebeck.
He studied mineralogy and geology at the University of Berlin as a pupil of Gustav Rose. In 1865 he received his doctorate with a dissertation on Upper Jurassic formations in Pomerania. In 1872 he was appointed professor of mineralogy and geology at the University of Kiel.
In 1873 he published a new edition of Gustav Rose's Elemente der Krystallographie. He was also editor of the section on geology in Karl Klaus von der Decken's Reisen in Ost-Afrika. Furthermore, he was the author of noted works on tetrahedrite, the crystallization of galena, the crystalline forms of chalcopyrite, etc.
Selected works
Geognostische Arbeiten im Jahre 1869. In: Zeitschrift der Gesellschaft für Erdkunde zu Berlin. 5th volume. Verlag von Dietrich Reimer, Berlin 1870 - Geognostic works in 1869.Gustav Rose’s Elemente der Krystallographie. 3rd edition. Ernst Siegfried Mittler und Sohn, Königliche Hofbuchhandlung, Berlin 1873 - Gustav Rose's Elemente der Krystallographie. Rose-Sadebeck’s Elemente der Krystallographie. Volume 2. Angewandte Krystallographie. Ernst Siegfried Mittler und Sohn, Königliche Hofbuchhandlung, Berlin 1876 - Rose-Sadebeck's Elemente der Krystallographie, volume 2: Applied crystallography. Baron Carl Claus von der Decken’s Reisen in Ostafrika. Volume 3: Scientific results. 3rd section. therein: Geology, edited by Alexander Sadebeck. C. F. Winter’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, Leipzig und Heidelberg 1879.A number of his scientific articles were published in the Zeitschrift der Deutschen geologischen Gesellschaft.