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Wolfgang Sartorius von Waltershausen

Wolfgang Sartorius, a German geologist in search of Mount Etna’s Treasures

Wolfgang Sartorius von Waltershausen was a 19th-century German geologist, mineralogist and astronomer, born in Göttingen in 1809 and died in 1876. He was one of the pioneers in the field of volcanology, he made important studies on several volcanoes giving special importance to Etna. Wolfgang Sartorius von Waltershausen came from a wealthy family and showed

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