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Authorised form of nameHaidinger; Wilhelm Karl Ritter von (1795 - 1871)
Other forms of nameCarl
Karl Ritter
Other forms of surnameVon Haidinger
Dates1795 - 1871
Place of birthVienna, Austria
Date of birth05 February 1795
Place of deathDornbach, near Vienna, Austria
Date of death19 March 1871
Research fieldMineralogy
Geology
ActivityCareer:
Director, Royal and Imperial Geological Institute, Vienna
Membership categoryForeign Member
Date of election20/11/1856
SourceSources:
Bulloch's Roll; DSB
Authority:
Altname from Record
Obituaries:
Proc Roy Soc 1871-1872 vol 20 pp xxv-xxvii
Virtual International Authority Filehttp://viaf.org/viaf/67275815
CodeNA3822
Archives associated with this Fellow
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EC/1856/16Haidinger, Wilhelm Karl Ritter von: certificate of election to the Royal Society
M/092Haidinger, Wilhelm1856
MM/14/217Letter from W Haidinger, Vienna, to the Royal Society3 April 1869
MC/5/320Letter from W K [Wilhelm Karl] Haidinger, Vienna, to [Lord Wrottesley, President of the Royal Society]7 December 1857
MC/5/266Letter from W H [William Henry] Smyth, [Foreign Secretary of the Royal Society], St John's Lodge, to [Charles Richard] Weld, [Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society] 23 November 1856
MC/5Volume 5 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society1851-1858
MC/9/210Letter from Edward Döll, director of the Real-Schule I Ankerhof and professor of natural philosopher, Ober-Realschule I, Ankerhof, to the Royal Society7 May 1871
MC/9Volume 9 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society1870-June 1873
AP/33/14Unpublished letter, regarding polarised light from Wilhelm Haidinger to the Royal Society15 January 1852
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