History
Famous names such as
- Abraham Gottlob WERNER (1749-1817),
- Carl Friedrich Christian MOHS (1773-1839),
- Friedrich August BREITHAUPT (1791-1873),
- Albin Julius WEISBACH (1833-1901),
- Friedrich Ludwig Wilhelm KOLBECK (1860-1943) and
- Helmut v. PHILIPSBORN (1892-1983)
are associated with the Freiberg Mineralogical Collection, who were each responsible for managing, expanding and completing the collection.
With the reopening of the Bergakademie in 1946, Friedrich LEUTWEIN (1911-1974) and in 1958 Hans Jürgen RÖSLER (born 1920) took over the management of the collection. An extensive international exchange network was established in order to continue the completion of the collection even under difficult financial circumstances.
Collection
Significant historical holdings of the collection are the originals of WERNER's, BREITHAUPT's and WEISBACH's mineral discoveries, as well as the Rittersgrün meteorite and the WERNER estate. More recent holdings of comparable importance are a proustite collection from Schlema, silver specimens from Pöhla, bismuth crystal specimens from Schlema and whewellite crystals from Freital, Schlema and Ronneburg.
The collection now comprises around 95,000 inventoried specimens.
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