Gustav Adolph Kenngott

Gustav Adolph Kenngott (January 6, 1818 – March 7, 1897) was a German mineralogist.

Kenngott was born in Breslau. After being employed in the Hofmineralien-Cabinett at Vienna, he became a professor of mineralogy at the University of Zürich. He was distinguished for his researches on mineralogy, crystallography and petrology. In 1855, from the serpentine of Mount Zdjar near Schönberg in Moravia, Kenngott was the first to describe enstatite. In 1860 he identified a new mineral, giving it the name pisanite in honor of Felice Pisani. Kenngott died in Lugano.