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BERNHARD VON COTTA (1808—1879)

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Originally appearing in Volume V07, Page 251 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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BERNHARD VON

COTTA (1808—1879)  , German geologist, was born in a forester's lodge near
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Eisenach, on the 24th of
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October 18o8 . He was educated at Freiberg and
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Heidelberg, and from 1842 to 1874 he held the professorship of geology in the Bergakademie of Freiberg . Botany at first attracted him, and he was one of the earliest to use the microscope in determining the structure of fossil
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plants . Later on he gave his attention to
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practical geology, to the study of ore-deposits, of rocks and metamorphism; and he was regarded as an excellent teacher . His Rocks classified and described: a
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Treatise on Lithology (translated by P . H . Lawrence, 1866) was the first comprehensive
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work on the subject issued in the
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English language, and it gave
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great impetus to the study of rocks in Britain . He died at Freiberg on the 14th of September 1879 .

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