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Maximilian Glas was a gifted artist, a co-founder of Lapis magazine, a graphic designer for many mineralogical publications including the Munich Show catalogs, and an enthusiastic mineral collector. He was born in Bad Wörishofen, Bavaria on March 7, 1948, and succumbed to a grave illness on November 4, 2005.
At the age of eight Max was sent to Sankt Blasien, a Jesuit boarding school in the Black Forest. It was there that he received a humanistic education and had his first contacts with mineralogy thanks to the school's mineral collection and the influence of the father of one of his fellow classmates. After graduating from secondary school, he spent nearly a year acquiring practical experience at the Gottesehre ("God's Honor") mine, a small fluorite mining operation in Urberg, near Sankt Blasien. Afterwards he studied mineralogy at the universities in Berlin and Freiburg.
I first met Maximilian in 1972. Our professional collaboration began in the winter of 1974/75, when he and Hartmut Schmeltzer collaboratively designed a guidebook to the mineral collecting sites of Baden-Württemberg, Bavaria and Rhineland-Palatinate. Maximilian...