(Born: Breslau, Germany, 3 September 1809; Died: 26 August 1877) German mineralogist.

Son of Carl Johann Bernhard (which see). Professor of mathematics and physics and the University of Rostock.

Biographical references: ADB: 15, 425-27. • Poggendorff: 1, col. 1229.

1. Latin, 1830 [Dissertation].
De crystallographiae mathematicae problematibus nonnulis. Dissertatio altera quam amplissimi atque ornatissimi philosophorum ordinis auctoritate pro Venia Legendi in Academia Rostochiensi scripsit Herrmannus Karsten. Accedit tabula lithographica ... Rostochii, Typis Adlerianis, 1830.

8°: 16 p., [1] leaf of plates. Page size: 24 x 20 cm Very scarce.

2. German, 1861.
Lehrbuch | der | Krystallographie | von | Dr. Hermann Karsten, | ordentlichm professor der mathematik und physik zu rostock, director der navigations- | schule daselbst, und mehrerer gelehrten gesellschaften mitgliede. | Leipzig, | Leopold Voss. | 1861.

8°: viii, 169 p. Published as Allgemeine Encyklopädie der Physik, no. 2. Very scarce.

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