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HEINRICH GEORG See also: German geologist, was See also: born on the 3rd of See also: March s800 at Ziegelhausen near
See also: Heidelberg
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Studying at the university at Heidelberg he took his See also: doctor's degree in the faculty of See also: medicine in 1821, and in the following See also: year was appointed professor of natural See also: history
.
He now devoted himself to palaeontological studies, and to See also: 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 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 geology
.
His Handbuch einer Geschichteder Natur, of which the first See also: part was issued in 1841, gave a general 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 record of fossils has proved of inestimable value to all palaeontologists
.
An important work on See also: recent and fossil zoology, 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 Wollaston 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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