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Originally appearing in Volume V07, Page 392 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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FRIEDRICH HEINRICH See also:CREDNER (1809-1876)  , See also:German geologist, was See also:born at See also:Waltershausen near See also:Gotha, on the 13th of See also:March 1809 . He investigated the See also:geology of the Thuringer Waldes, of which he published a See also:map in 1846 . He was author of a See also:work entitled Uber See also:die Gliederung der oberen Juraformation and der See also:Wealden-Bildung See also:im nordwestlichen Deutschland (See also:Prague, 1863), also of a See also:geological map of See also:Hanover (1865) . He died at See also:Halle on the 28th of See also:September 1876 . His son, CARL See also:HERMANN See also:CREDNER (1841— ), was born at Gotha on the 1st of See also:October 1841, educated at See also:Breslau and See also:Gottingen, and took the degree of Ph.D. at Breslau in 1864 . In 1870 he was appointed See also:professor of geology in the university of See also:Leipzig, and in 1872 director of the Geological Survey of See also:Saxony . He is author of numerous publications on the geology of Saxony, and of an important work, Elemente der Geologic (2 vols., 1872; 7th ed., 1891), regarded as the See also:standard See also:manual in See also:Germany . He has also written See also:memoirs on Saurians and Labyrinthodonts .

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