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GEORG AUGUST GOLDFUSS (1782-1848)

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GEORG

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AUGUST
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GOLDFUSS (1782-1848)  ,
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German palaeontologist,
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born at Thurnau near
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Bayreuth on the 18th of
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April 1782, was educated at
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Erlangen, where he graduated Ph.D. in 1804 and became
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professor of
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zoology in 1818 . He was subsequently appointed professor of zoology and
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mineralogy in the university of
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Bonn . Aided by
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Count G .
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Munster he issued the important Petrefacta Germaniae (1826-1844), a
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work which was intended to illustrate the invertebrate fossils of
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Germany, but it was
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left incomplete after the
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sponges,
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corals, crinoids, echinids and
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part of the
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mollusca had been figured .
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Goldfuss died at Bonn on the 2nd of
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October 1848 .

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