Kunz, George Frederick, 1856-1932

LC control no.	n 86842753
Descriptive conventions	rda
Personal name heading	Kunz, George Frederick, 1856-1932 *Browse this term in* LC Authorities or the LC Catalog
Birth date	1856-09-29
Death date	1932-06-29
Affiliation	Tiffany and Company United States. Geological Survey
Found in	LCCN 06-1557: Bishop Collection. The Bishop collection, 1906 (hdg.: Kunz, George Frederick, 1856-1932) LC data base, 7-17-86 (hdg.: Kunz, George Frederick, 1856-1932) Marquis who's who WWW site, Dec. 28, 2012 (George Frederick Kunz; Sept. 29, 1856, New York, d. June 29, 1932; gem expert) NUCMC data from Arkansas Hist. Comm for His Papers, 1885-1932 (George Frederick Kunz (1856-1932), well-known mineralogist and gemologist from New York City, was largely self-taught. He attended Cooper Union for two years but did not earn a degree. By the time he was twenty, he had amassed a mineral collection of over 4,000 specimens that he meticulously labeled and sold to the University of Minnesota for $400. When he was twenty-three, he became the gem expert at Tiffany and Company, where he remained for fifty-three years, eventually becoming Vice President. From 1883-1909, he was special agent for the United States Geological Survey. He founded the New York Mineralogial Club and was a member of the American Society of Arts and Science and the Philadelphia Academy of Sciences. He was Honorary Curator of Precious Stones at the American Museum of Natural History and Curator for the New York Academy of Sciences. He wrote over 500 articles and several books, some of which are still in print today)