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BEYRICH, HEINRICH ERNST VON (1815—1896)

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BEYRICH, HEINRICH See also:ERNST VON (1815—1896) , See also:German geologist, was See also:born at See also:Berlin on the 31st of See also:August 1815, and educated at the university in that See also:city, and afterwards at See also:Bonn, where he studied under See also:Goldfuss and Noggerath. He obtained his degree of Ph. D. in 1837 at Berlin, and was subsequently employed in the mineralogical museum of the university, becoming director of the palaeontological collection in 1857, and director of the museum in 1875. He was one of the founders ' Qui giace Arrigo See also:Beyle Milanese; visse, scrisse, amo. 839 of the German See also:Geological Society in 1848. He See also:early recognized the value of palaeontology in stratigraphical See also:work; and he made important, researches in the Rhenish mountains, in the Harz and Alpine districts. In later years he gave See also:special See also:attention to the See also:Tertiary strata, including the See also:Brown See also:Coal of See also:North See also:Germany. In 1854 he proposed the See also:term Oligocene for certain Tertiary strata intermediate between the See also:Eocene and See also:Miocene; and the term is now generally adopted. In 1865 he was appointed See also:professor of See also:geology and palaeontology in the Berlin University, where he was eminently successful as a teacher; and when the Prussian Geological Survey was instituted in 1873 he was appointed co-director with Wilhelm Hauchecorne (1828—1900). He published Beitragezur Kenntniss der Versteinerungen See also:des rheinischen Ubergangs-gebirges (1837); Uber einige hohmische Trilobiten (1845); See also:Die Conchylien des norddeutschen Tertidrgebirges (1853—1857). He died on the 9th of See also:July 1896.

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