Albin Weisbach

Albin Weisbach (December 6, 1833 – February 26, 1901) was a German mineralogist and professor of mineralogy at the mining academy at Freiberg.

He studied various minerals and described and named several including trögerite, walpurgin, zeuerite, rbagite, titanium zonite, uranospinite, uranocircite, cobalt spar, arnimite, and argyrodite.

He then went to Göttingen and Paris, studying metallurgy and in 1824 he returned to Freiberg as an inspector.

He learned crystallography from his father and received a doctorate from Heidelberg in 1857 with a dissertation on the monstrosities of tesseral crystal forming minerals.

He suffered from a cardiac arrest and moved to the sanatorium at Naunhof near Leipzig where he died.