Klaus Schäfer
gemstone- and jewellery-designer
teacher at the college in Idar-Oberstein
(specification design and gemstone-technologies)
e-mail: klaus.schaefer@mineralworld.de
URL:
www.mineralworld.de
www.achat-archiv.de
www.mineralienverein-freisen.de
The mineralworld of agates is a compilation of several collections. Many thanks to the following collectors that allowed me to take fotos in their collection or gave me their own fotos for publishing:
Reiner M. Schäfer, Christof Keller, Dietrich Mayer, Holger Schröck, Gernot Geibel-Emden, Jakob Görres, Peter Jeckel, Karl Fritz, Hermann Becker, Hideharu Yamada, Doug Moore, Kurt Heidemann, Karl Theis, Joseph Paul, Robert Mattes, Manfred Boller, Guido and Elisabeth DeBeer, Rainer Hoffmann-Rothe, Heiko Bethke, Marta Vandemandier, Riccardo and Claudia Birnie, Eckehard Müller, Herbert Jäckel, Stefan Meier, Wolfgang Gläser, Dieter Augenthaler., Helmut Schumann, Johann Zenz.
Your invited to become a member too ! - Please contact me.
vita:
apprenticeship in gemstone-cutting at A. Ruppenthal lapidaries in Idar-Oberstein
studies in gemstone- and jewellery-design at the university of Trier ( departement Idar-Oberstein)- Graduation: master of arts.
production of fine jewellry and gemstones in my company “design-werkstatt”
Studies in paedagogics from 1999 to 2001
since 1999 responsable for the instruction of gemstone-cutting- and goldsmithing-apprentices in design and technology at the Berufschule Idar-Oberstein.
publications:
- assistance at the special-edition about the Binna Valley in Switzerland july/august 1995 ( pictures and drawings) from Lapis publishing house.
- article about quartz-twins from Idar-Oberstein Lapis october 1999
- cooperation at the description of the first mineralogical holotype from the saarland: Krettnichite.
look at Eur.J.Mineral. 2001,13,145 - 158 : ”Description, crystal structure, and paragenesis of krettnichite, ..., the Mn³+ analogue of mounanaite.”
- co-author of the article: ”The manganese-deposits of Krettnich,saarland” Lapis november 2001
- author of “ new agate-findings at Freisen” Lapis June 2002
- author of “ Flying agates ... - about the recent history of the agate-finding-locations in the region of Freisen “ in the catalouge of the special-exibition “agate-dreams “ of the “Munich Mineral Days” 2005.
- Author of “ New agate-findings at Waeschertskaulen, Idar-Oberstein “ in Lapis 4/2006
- Author of “ Die spektakulären Achatfunde von 2006 im Raum Idar-Oberstein - Baumholder “ Lapis 1/2007
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