Theodor Liebisch
Theodor Liebisch was a German mineralogist and crystallographer.Biography
In 1874 he received his doctorate from the University of Breslau, then worked as an assistant to Gerhard vom Rath at the University of Bonn. After several years spent as a curator at the mineralogical museum of the University of Berlin, he became an associate professor of mineralogy at Breslau. Afterwards he successively served as a full professor of mineralogy at the universities of Greifswald, Königsberg, Göttingen and Berlin. He was an editor of the periodical "Jahrbuch für Mineralogie, Geologie und Paläontologie".
His name is associated with "Liebisch twinning", a complex type of crystal twinning that is a combination of the Dauphiné and Brazil twinning laws.- Geometrische krystallographie, 1881 - Geometric crystallography.
- Physikalische krystallographie, 1891 - Physical crystallography.
- Grundriss der physikalischen Krystallographie, 1896 - Outline of physical crystallography.
- Die synthese der mineralien und gesteine, 1901 - The synthesis of minerals and rocks.
