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NOEGGERATH, JOHANN JACOB (1788-1877)

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NOEGGERATH, JOHANN See also:JACOB (1788-1877) , See also:German mineralogist and geologist, was See also:born at See also:Bonn on the loth of See also:October 1788. In 1814-1815 he became See also:commissioner of mines for some of the See also:Rhine Provinces, and in 1818 See also:professor of See also:mineralogy and afterwards professor of See also:geology, director of the Museum of Natural See also:History and See also:chief of the See also:mining See also:department in the university at Bonn. He obtained a very See also:fine collection of minerals for the museum, was eminently successful as a teacher, and achieved a wide reputation among mining See also:engineers. The following are his more important publications: fiber aufrecht See also:im Gebirgsgestein eingeschlossene fossile Baumstdmme and andere Vegetabilien (1819-1821); Das Gebirge in Rheinland-Westphalen, nach mineralogischem and chemischem Bezuge (4 vols., 1822-1826) ; See also:Die Entstehung der Erde (1843); and Der Laacher See and See also:seine vulkanischen Umgebungen (1870). The Carboniferous plant Noeggerathia, allied to the Zamias and Cycads, was named after him. He died at Bonn on the 13th of See also:September 1877.

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