Félix Pisani

Félix Pisani (1831–1920)

Félix Pisani (28 April 1831, Constantinople – 7 November 1920, Paris) was a French chemist and mineralogist.

He was born in Istanbul, where his Venetian father worked in the Russian diplomatic service. Beginning in 1854, he studied chemistry in Paris at a private school run by Charles Frédéric Gerhardt (1816–1856).

Best known as a dealer in minerals and other geological materials, Pisani maintained a private laboratory on the Rue de Furstenberg in Paris, from where he conducted private lectures and performed consultant work. His laboratory was a popular meeting place of local mineralogists until the creation of the Société minéralogique de France in 1878, of which Pisani was a founding member.[1]

His primary written work was "Traité élémentaire de minéralogie" (Elementary treatise of mineralogy), first published in 1875.[2] In 1860, the mineral pisanite was named in his honor by Gustav Adolph Kenngott.[3]

References

  1. ↑ The Mineralogical Record, Inc. (biography)
  2. ↑ World Cat Identities Most widely held works by Félix Pisani
  3. ↑ Mindat Pisanite

Further reading

Mineralogical Magazine. 1922. p. 254. 

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