The German naturalist Abraham Gottlob Werner (1749-1817) wrote the first modern textbook of descriptive mineralogy and was the major proponent of the Neptunian theory of the earth. Abraham Werner was born on Sept. 25, 1749, at Wehrau in Upper Lusatia...

German geologist One of the founders of stratigraphy, Abraham Werner was one of the first to apply the modern scientific method to many geological problems, had a powerful and positive influence on his scientists, and was one of the first to attempt a...

1749-1817 German Naturalist Abraham Gottlob Werner wrote the first modern textbook of descriptive mineralogy, Vonden äusserlichen Kennzeichen der Fossilien (1774; "On the External Characters of Fossils"). Taking issue with existing...

Abraham Gottlob Werner (September 25, 1749 – June 30, 1817), was a German geologist who set out a controversial theory about the stratification of the Earth's crust and coined the now obsolete word...