Education
Rath was educated at Cologne, at Bonn University, and finally at Berlin, where he graduated Doctor of Philosophy in 1853.
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Rath was educated at Cologne, at Bonn University, and finally at Berlin, where he graduated Doctor of Philosophy in 1853.
In 1856 he became assistant to Johann Jakob Nöggerath in the mineralogical museum at Bonn, and succeeded to the directorship in 1872. Meanwhile, in 1863 he was appointed extraordinary professor of geology, and in 1872 he became professor of geology and mineralogy in the university at Bonn. He was distinguished for his accurate researches on mineralogy and crystallography.
He described a great many new minerals, some of which were discovered by him, and he contributed largely to our knowledge of other minerals, notably in an essay on tridymite.
He travelled much in southern Europe, Palestine and the United States, and wrote several essays on petrology, geology and physical geography, on earthquakes and on meteorites. He died at Koblenz in 1888.
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Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities. Russian Academy of Sciences.