Edward Henry Kraus

[1] Edward Henry Kraus was born at Syracuse, New York, on December 1, 1875.

During the following year he was a graduate student in that university and was also an assistant in chemistry and German.

During 1899–1901 he studied at the University of Munich, and at the end of the period received the degree of Doctor of Philosophy magna cum laude.

His doctoral thesis was entitled "Ueber einige Salze der seltenen Erden"[2] He returned to Syracuse University for one year, first as instructor in mineralogy and then as associate professor of the same subject.

He published Essentials of Crystallography in 1906, "Descriptive Mineralogy" and, with W. F. Hunt, "Tables for the Determination of Minerals", in 1911.