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born in Altenau as the son of the forester Ludewig Ernst Knop and his wife Philippine Amalie Haeberle. The mineralogist and scholar Adolf Knop was one of his brothers. He studied natural sciences at the Universities of Göttingen and Heidelberg and taught mechanics and natural sciences at the commercial college in Leipzig from 1847 to 1856. In 1853,

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