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ARNOLD ESCHER VON DER LINTH (1807—1872)

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Originally appearing in Volume V09, Page 765 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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ARNOLD ESCHER VON DER
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LINTH (1807—1872)  , Swiss geologist, the son of Hans
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Conrad Escher (1767—1823), was
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born at
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Zurich on the 8th of
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June 1807 . In 1856 he became
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professor of
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geology at the 1
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cole Polytechnique at Zurich . His researches led him to be regarded as one of the founders of Swiss geology . With B .
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Studer he produced (1852—1853) the first elaborate
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geological
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map of
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Switzerland . He was the author also of Geologische Bemerkungen fiber das nordliche
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Vorarlberg and einige angrenzenden Gegenden, published at Zurich in 1853 . He died on the 12th of
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July 1872 .

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