HEINRICH GEORG See also:

• HEINRICH GEORG BRONN (1800-1862)

BRONN (1800-1862)  , See also:

• GERMAN
• GERMAN, DUTCH AND SCANDINAVIAN

German geologist, was See also:

• BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born on the 3rd of See also:

• MARCH
• MARCH (1) (from Fr. marcher, to walk; the earliest sense in French appears to be " to trample," and the origin has usually been found in the Lat. marcus, hammer; Low Lat. marcare, to hammer; hence to beat the road with the regular tread of a soldier: cf.
• MARCH, AUZIAS (c. "1395-1458)
• MARCH, EARLS OF
• MARCH, FRANCIS ANDREW (1825– )

March s800 at Ziegelhausen near See also:

• HEIDELBERG

Heidelberg . Studying at the university at Heidelberg he took his See also:

• DOCTOR (Lat. for " teacher ")

doctor's degree in the See also:

• FACULTY (through the French, from the Lat. facultas, ability to do anything, from facilis, easy, facere, to do; another form of the word in Lat. facilitas, facility, ease, keeps the original meaning)

faculty of See also:

• MEDICINE

medicine in 1821, and in the following See also:

• YEAR

year was appointed See also:

• PROFESSOR (the Latin noun formed from the verb profiteri, to declare publicly, to acknowledge, profess)

professor of natural See also:

• HISTORY

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

work in various parts of See also:

• GERMANY
• GERMANY (Ger. Deutschland)

Germany, See also:

• ITALY
• ITALY (Italia)

Italy and See also:

• FRANCE
• FRANCE, ANATOLE (1844– )

France . From its commencement in 183o to 1862 he, assisted in editing the Jahrbuch See also:

• FUR (connected with O. Fr. forre, a sheath or case; so " an outer covering ")

fur Mineralogie, &c., continued as Nelms Jahrbuch . His See also:

• PRINCIPAL

principal work, Lethaea Geognostica (2 vols., See also:

• STUTTGART

Stuttgart, 1834–1838; 3rd ed. with F . Romer, 3 vols., 1851–1856), has been regarded as one of the See also:

• FOUNDATIONS

foundations of German stratigraphical See also:

• GEOLOGY (from Gr. yp7, the earth, and Abyor, science)

geology . His Handbuch einer Geschichteder Natur, of which the first See also:

• PART

part was issued in 1841, gave a See also:

• GENERAL
• GENERAL (Lat. generalis, of or relating to a genus, kind or class)

general See also:

• ACCOUNT
• ACCOUNT (through O. Fr. acont, Late Lat. comptum, cornputare, to calculate)

account of the See also:

• PHYSICAL

physical history of the See also:

• EARTH
• EARTH (a word common to Teutonic languages, cf. Ger. Erde, Dutch aarde, Swed. and Dan. jord; outside Teutonic it appears only in the Gr. 'pq'e, on the ground; it has been connected by some etymologists with the Aryan root ar-, to plough, which is seen in
• EARTH, FIGURE OF
• EARTH, FIGURE OF THE

earth, while the second part dealt with the See also:

• LIFE

life-history, See also:

• SPECIES

species being regarded as See also:

• DIRECT

direct acts of creation . The third part included his famous See also:

• INDEX

Index Palaeontologicus, and was issued in 3 vols., 1848–1849, with the assistance of H. von See also:

• MEYER, CHRISTIAN ERICH HERMANN VON (18or-1869)
• MEYER, HEINRICH AUGUST WILHELM (1800-1873)
• MEYER, JULIUS LOTHAR (183o-1895)
• MEYER, KONRAD FERDINAND (1825-1898)
• MEYER, VICTOR (1848-1897)
• MEYER, [MARIE] PAUL HYACINTHE (184o- )

Meyer and H . R . Goppert . This See also:

• RECORD (Lat. recordari, to recall to mind, from cor, heart or mind)

record of fossils has proved of inestimable value to all palaeontologists . An important work on See also:

• RECENT

recent and fossil See also:

• ZOOLOGY (from Gr. Nov, a living thing, and ?byos, theory)

zoology, See also:

• DIE
• DIE (Fr. de, from Lat. datum, given)

Die Klassen and Ordnungen See also:

• DES

des Thier-Reichs, was commenced by See also:

• BRONN, HEINRICH GEORG (1800-1862)

Bronn .

He wrote the volumes dealing with Amorphozoa, See also:

• ACTINOZOA

Actinozoa, and Malacozoa, published 1859–1862; the work was continued by other naturalists . In 1861 Bronn was awarded the See also:

• WOLLASTON, WILLIAM (1659--1724)
• WOLLASTON, WILLIAM HYDE (1766-1828)

Wollaston See also:

• MEDAL (Fr. medaille, from Lat. metallum)

medal by the See also:

• GEOLOGICAL

Geological Society of See also:

• LONDON

London . He died at Heidelberg on the 5th of See also:

• JULY

July 1862 .