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KARL EDUARD VON EICHWALD (1795-1876)

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Originally appearing in Volume V09, Page 132 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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EICHWALD (1795-1876)  , See also:Russian geologist and physician, was See also:born at See also:Mitau in See also:Courland on the 4th of See also:July 1795 . He became See also:doctor of See also:medicine and See also:professor of See also:zoology in Kazan in 1823; four years later professor of zoology and See also:comparative See also:anatomy at See also:Vilna; in 1838 professor of zoology, See also:mineralogy and medicine at St See also:Petersburg; and finally professor of palaeontology in the See also:institute of mines in that See also:city . He travelled much in the Russian See also:empire, and was a keen observer of its natural See also:history and See also:geology . He died at St Petersburg on the loth of See also:November 1876 . His published See also:works include Raise auf dem Caspischen Meere and in den See also:Caucasus, 2 vols . (See also:Stuttgart and See also:Tubingen, 1834-1838) ; See also:Die Urwelt Russ-lands (St Petersburg, 1840-1845); Lethaea Rossica, ou paleontologic de la Russie, 3 vols . (Stuttgart, 1852-1868), with Atlases .

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