| Ernst Friedrich, Baron Von Schlotheim |
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| 1764 births | |
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| 1832 deaths | |
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He was Privy Councillor and President of the Chamber at the court of Gotha . Becoming interested in Geology he gathered a very extensive collection of Fossil s. In 1804 he published descriptions and illustrations of remarkable remains of ( Carboniferous ) plants, ''Ein Beitrag zur Flora der Vorwelt''. His more important work was entitled ''Die Petrefactenkunde'' (1820). In this he incorporated the plates used in his previous memoir and supplemented it by a folio atlas (1822), in which he illustrated his collection of petrified and fossil remains of the animal and vegetable kingdom of a former world. For the first time in Germany the fossils were named according to the Binomial System of Linnaeus . His specimens are preserved in the Berlin Museum. He died at Gotha . REFERENCES |
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