HEINRICH GEORG See also:BRONN (1800-1862)
, See also:German geologist, was See also:born on the 3rd of See also:March s800 at Ziegelhausen near See also:Heidelberg
.
Studying at the university at Heidelberg he took his See also:doctor's degree in the See also:faculty of See also:medicine in 1821, and in the following See also:year was appointed See also:professor of natural See also:history
.
He now devoted himself to palaeontological studies, and to See also:- FIELD (a word common to many West German languages, cf. Ger. Feld, Dutch veld, possibly cognate with O.E. f olde, the earth, and ultimately with root of the Gr. irAaror, broad)
- FIELD, CYRUS WEST (1819-1892)
- FIELD, DAVID DUDLEY (18o5-1894)
- FIELD, EUGENE (1850-1895)
- FIELD, FREDERICK (18o1—1885)
- FIELD, HENRY MARTYN (1822-1907)
- FIELD, JOHN (1782—1837)
- FIELD, MARSHALL (183 1906)
- FIELD, NATHAN (1587—1633)
- FIELD, STEPHEN JOHNSON (1816-1899)
- FIELD, WILLIAM VENTRIS FIELD, BARON (1813-1907)
field-See also:work in various parts of See also:Germany, See also:Italy and See also:France
.
From its commencement in 183o to 1862 he, assisted in editing the Jahrbuch See also:fur Mineralogie, &c., continued as Nelms Jahrbuch
.
His See also:principal work, Lethaea Geognostica (2 vols., See also:Stuttgart, 1834–1838; 3rd ed. with F
.
Romer, 3 vols., 1851–1856), has been regarded as one of the See also:foundations of German stratigraphical See also:geology
.
His Handbuch einer Geschichteder Natur, of which the first See also:part was issued in 1841, gave a See also:general See also:account of the See also:physical history of the See also:earth, while the second part dealt with the See also:life-history, See also:species being regarded as See also:direct acts of creation
.
The third part included his famous See also:Index Palaeontologicus, and was issued in 3 vols., 1848–1849, with the assistance of H. von See also:Meyer and H
.
R
.
Goppert
.
This See also:record of fossils has proved of inestimable value to all palaeontologists
.
An important work on See also:recent and fossil See also:zoology, See also:Die Klassen and Ordnungen See also:des Thier-Reichs, was commenced by See also:Bronn
.
He wrote the volumes dealing with Amorphozoa, See also:Actinozoa, and Malacozoa, published 1859–1862; the work was continued by other naturalists
.
In 1861 Bronn was awarded the See also:Wollaston See also:medal by the See also:Geological Society of See also:London
.
He died at Heidelberg on the 5th of See also:July 1862
.
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