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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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KARL EDUARD VON

EICHWALD (1795-1876)  ,
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Russian geologist and physician, was born at Mitau in Courland on the 4th of
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July 1795 . He became doctor of
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medicine and professor of zoology in Kazan in 1823; four years later professor of zoology and
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comparative anatomy at Vilna; in 1838 professor of zoology,
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mineralogy and medicine at St
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Petersburg; and finally professor of palaeontology in the institute of mines in that city . He travelled much in the Russian
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empire, and was a keen observer of its natural
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history and geology . He died at St Petersburg on the loth of November 1876 . His published
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works include Raise auf dem Caspischen Meere and in den
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Caucasus, 2 vols . (
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Stuttgart and
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Tubingen, 1834-1838) ; 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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