BARON VON CONSTANTIN

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• BARON VON CONSTANTIN ETTINGSHAUSEN (1826-1897)

ETTINGSHAUSEN (1826-1897)  , Austrian geologist and botanist, was born in Vienna on the 16th of June 1826 . He graduated as a doctor of medicine in Vienna, and became in 1854 professor of botany and natural history at the medical and surgical military academy in that city . In 1871 he was chosen professor of botany at Graz, a position which he occupied until the close of his life . He was distinguished for his researches on the Tertiary floras of various parts of Europe, and on the fossil floras of Australia and New Zealand . He died at Graz on the 1st of February 1897 . 1882) .