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ROEMER, FRIEDRICH ADOLPH (1809-1869)

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ROEMER, See also:FRIEDRICH ADOLPH (1809-1869) , See also:German geologist, was See also:born at See also:Hildesheim, in See also:Prussia, on the 14th of See also:April 18o9. His See also:father was a lawyer and councillor of the high See also:court of See also:justice. In 1845 he became See also:professor, of See also:mineralogy and See also:geology at See also:Clausthal, and in 1862 director of the School of Mines. He first described the Cretaceous and See also:Jurassic strata of See also:Germany in elaborate See also:works entitled See also:Die Versteinerungen See also:des Norddeutschen Oolithen-gebirges (1836—39), Die Versteinerungen des Norddeutschen Kreidegebirges (184o—1841) and Die Versteinerungen des Harzgebirges (1843). He died at Clausthal on the 25th of See also:November 1869. His See also:brother, CARL See also:FERDINAND VON ROEMER (1818.189I), who had been educated for the legal profession at See also:Gottingen, also became interested in geology, and abandoning See also:law in 184o, studied See also:science at the university of See also:Berlin, where he graduated Ph.D. in 1842. Two years later he published his first See also:work, Das Rheinische Ubergangsgebirge (1844), in which he dealt with the older rocks and fossils. In 1845 he paid a visit to See also:America, and devoted a See also:year and a See also:half to a careful study of the geology of See also:Texas and other See also:Southern states. He published at See also:Bonn in 1849 a See also:general work entitled Texas, while the results of his investigations of the Cretaceous rocks and fossils were published three years later in a See also:treatise, Die Kreidebildungen von Texas and ihre organischen Einschlilsse (1852), which included also a general See also:account of the geology, and gained for him the See also:title " Father of the geology of Texas. Subsequently he published at See also:Breslau Die Silurische See also:Fauna des westlichen See also:Tennessee (186o). During the preparation of these works he was from 1847 to 1855 " privat-docent " at Bonn, and was then appointed professor of geology, palaeontology and mineralogy in the university of Breslau, a See also:post which he held with See also:signal success as a teacher until his See also:death. As a palaeontologist he made important contributions to our knowledge especially of the invertebrata of the Devonian and older rocks.

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Bronn with the third edition of the Lethaea geognostica (1851—56), and subsequently he laboured on an enlarged and revised edition, of which he published one See also:section, Lethaea palaeozoica (1876—1883). In 1862 he was called on to superintend the preparation of a See also:geological See also:map of Upper See also:Silesia, and the results of his researches were embodied in his Geologie von Oberschlesien (3 vols., 1870). As a mineralogist he was likewise well known, more particularly by his See also:practical teachings and by the collection he formed in the Museum at Breslau. He died at Breslau on the 14th of See also:December 1891.

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