death_date birth_date known_for image article_title education citizenship occupation
25 may 1909 04 may 1848 co-architect meteorites of the `` rose-tschermak-brezina classification '' system for aristides brezina.jpg aristides brezina
 university of tübingen -lrb- 1872 -rrb- austrian mineralogist
aristides brezina

aristides brezina -lrb- 4 may 1848 -- 25 may 1909 -rrb- was an austrian mineralogist born in vienna .
in 1872 he graduated from the university of tübingen , and afterwards taught crystallography at the university of vienna .
in 1878 he succeeded austrian mineralogist gustav tschermak -lrb- 1836-1927 -rrb- as custodian of the meteorite collection at vienna , and from 1889 until 1896 he was director of the `` mineralogisch-petrographische abteilung '' -lrb- department of mineralogy-petrography -rrb- .
brezina is known for his study of meteorites , and with german mineralogist gustav rose -lrb- 1798-1873 -rrb- and tschermak , he was co-architect of the `` rose-tschermak-brezina classification '' system for meteorites .
it was largely based on criteria such as texture and color , and was widely used from the mid-1880s to around 1920 when a simpler method of classification was proposed by george thurland prior .
brezinaite , a mineral found in meteorites , is named after him .
