(Born: Hüttenwerk Oker near Goslar, Germany, 15 April 1766; Died: Göttingen, Germany, 9 August 1828) German philosopher.

Bouterweck was professor of philosophy and morals at the University of Göttingen. In 1808, he was elected a member Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften [Bavarian Academy of Sciences].

Biographical references: ADB. • DBA: I 7, 108-109; 131, 112-137; 1425, 456-460; II 161, 272-273, 277-283. • Hamberger & Meusel, Gelehrte Teutschland, 1796-1834. • NDB. • Poggendorff: 1, cols. 264-5 & 1542. • WBI.

1. German, 1808.
Über die | Möglichkeit | einer | philosophischen Classification | der | Mineralkörper. | [rule] | Ein Gutachten | aus keiner Schuler. | [rule] | [wavy rule] | Göttingen, | bey Johann Friedrich Röwer. | 1808.

8°: [i]-viii, [1]-72 p.

Rare. Examines the benefits and problems of mineralogical classification of the time. It was written as an explanation to mineralogical students who were perhaps bewildered by the chaos that seemed to reign in mineral systematics.

Bibliographical references: BL [973.b.10.(6.)]. • BMC: 1, 217. • LKG: XII 203. • NUC: 70, 57-9 [NB 0702977].

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