See also:

• BARON
• BARON (1835-1895)
• BARON, MICHEL (1653—1729)

BARON VON WOLFGANG SARTORIUS See also:

• BARON VON WOLFGANG SARTORIUS WALTERSHAUSEN (1809-1876)

WALTERSHAUSEN (1809-1876)  , See also:

• GERMAN
• GERMAN, DUTCH AND SCANDINAVIAN

German geologist, was See also:

• BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born at See also:

• GOTTINGEN

Gottingen, on the 17th of See also:

• DECEMBER (Lat. decent, ten)

December 1809, and educated at the university in that See also:

• CITY (through Fr. cite, from Lat. civitas)

city . There he devoted his See also:

• ATTENTION (from Lat. ad-tendo, await, expect; the condition of being " stretched " or " tense ")

attention to See also:

• PHYSICAL

physical and natural See also:

• SCIENCE (Lat. scientia, from scire; to learn, know)

science, and in particular to See also:

• MINERALOGY

mineralogy . During a tour in 1834-1835 he carried out a See also:

• SERIES (a Latin word from serere, to join)

series of magnetic observations in various parts of See also:

• EUROPE

Europe . He then gave his attention to an exhaustive investigation of See also:

• ETNA
• ETNA (Gr. AZ-rvn, from aZOw, burn; Lat. Aetna)

Etna, and carried on the See also:

• WORK

work with some interruptions until 1843 . The See also:

• CHIEF (from Fr. chef, head, Lat. caput)

chief result of this undertaking was his See also:

• GREAT

great See also:

• ATLAS

Atlas See also:

• DES

des Atna(1858-1861), in which he distinguished the See also:

• LAVA

lava streams formed during the later centuries . After his return from Etna he visited See also:

• ICELAND (Dan. Island)

Iceland, and subsequently published Physisahgeographische Skizze von See also:

• ISLAND (O.E. ieg =isle, +land')

Island (1847), Uber See also:

• DIE
• DIE (Fr. de, from Lat. datum, given)

die vulkanischen Gesteine in Sicilien and Island (1853), and Geologischer Atlas von Island (1853) . Meanwhile he was appointed See also:

• PROFESSOR (the Latin noun formed from the verb profiteri, to declare publicly, to acknowledge, profess)

professor of mineralogy and See also:

• GEOLOGY (from Gr. yp7, the earth, and Abyor, science)

geology at Gottingen, and held this See also:

• POST

post for about See also:

• THIRTY

thirty years, until his See also:

• DEATH

death . In 1866 he published an important See also:

• ESSAY, ESSAYIST (Fr. essai, Late Lat. exagium, a weighing or balance; exigere, to examine; the term in general meaning any trial or effort)

essay entitled Recherches sur See also:

• LES

les climats de l'epoque actuelle et des epoques anciennes; in this he expressed his belief that the Glacial See also:

• PERIOD
• PERIOD (Gr. irepioSos, a going or way round, circuit, aepi, round, and &Sis, way, road)

period was due to changes in the configuration of the See also:

• EARTH
• EARTH (a word common to Teutonic languages, cf. Ger. Erde, Dutch aarde, Swed. and Dan. jord; outside Teutonic it appears only in the Gr. 'pq'e, on the ground; it has been connected by some etymologists with the Aryan root ar-, to plough, which is seen in
• EARTH, FIGURE OF
• EARTH, FIGURE OF THE

earth's See also:

• SURFACE

surface . He died at Gottingen on the 16th of See also:

• OCTOBER

October 1876 .