Alfred Wilhelm Stelzner

Alfred Wilhelm Stelzner (20 December 1840, Dresden – 25 February 1895, Wiesbaden) was a German geologist.

From 1859 to 1864 he was a student at the Bergakademie Freiberg, an institute where he later served as inspector.

From 1871 to 1874 he was a professor of mineralogy and geology at the University of Córdoba in Argentina.

In 1874 he returned to the Bergakademie at Freiberg, where he succeeded his former teacher, Bernhard von Cotta.

[1][2] He was the first geologist to describe the minerals famatinite (1873) and franckeite (1893).