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HEINRICH See also:ERNST VON See also:BEYRICH (1815—1896)
, See also:German geologist, was See also:born at See also:Berlin on the 31st of See also:August 1815, and educated at the university in that See also:city, and afterwards at See also:Bonn, where he studied under See also:Goldfuss and Noggerath
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He obtained his degree of Ph
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D. in 1837 at Berlin, and was subsequently employed in the mineralogical museum of the university, becoming director of the palaeontological collection in 1857, and director of the museum in 1875
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He was one of the founders
' Qui giace Arrigo See also:Beyle Milanese; visse, scrisse, amo
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of the German See also:Geological Society in 1848
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He See also:early recognized the value of palaeontology in stratigraphical See also:work; and he made important, researches in the Rhenish mountains, in the Harz and Alpine districts
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In later years he gave See also:special See also:attention to the See also:Tertiary strata, including the See also: |
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