Carl Friedrich Heinrich Credner

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Carl Friedrich Heinrich Credner (13 March 1809 - 28 September 1876), German geologist, was born at Waltershausen near Gotha. He investigated the geology of the Thuringer Waldes, of which he published a map in 1846. He was author of a work entitled Uber die Gliederung der oberen Juraformation und der Wealden-Bildung im nordwestlichen Deutschland (Prague, 1863), also of a geological map of Hanover (1865). He died at Halle in 1876.

His son, Carl Hermann Credner (1 October 1841-1913), was born at Gotha, educated at Breslau and Göttingen, and took the degree of Ph.D. at Breslau in 1864. In 1870 he was appointed professor of geology in the University of Leipzig, and in 1872 director of the Geological Survey of Saxony.

He is author of numerous publications on the geology of Saxony, and of an important work, Elemente der Geologic (2 vols., 1872; 7th ed., 1891), regarded as the standard manual in Germany. He also wrote memoirs on Saurians and Labyrinthodonts.

[edit] References

• This article incorporates text from the Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition, a publication now in the public domain.