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He was the son of d’Aloys Fischer. He studied Medicine at Fribourg-en-Brisgau but also at Vienna . Fischer practised medicine in Freiburg-in-Brisgau and from 1845 taught zoology and mineralogy there. Initially an assistant, he became a professor in 1859. His most significant works are

  • '' Orthoptera Europaea'' (1853)

  • ''Clavis der Silicate'' (1864)

  • ''Chronologischer Überblick über die allmalige Einführung der Mikroskopie in das Studium der Mineralogie, Petrographie und Paläontologie'' (1868)

  • ''Kritische mikroscopy St''udien (1869, 1871-1873)

  • ''Nephrit und Jadeit nach ihren mineralogischen Eigenschaften, sowie nach ihrer urgerschichtlishen und ethnographischen Bedeutung'' (1875)

  • and many other scientific articles.


He was one of the best specialists in the Classification of insects of his time. After much research in Geology , he devoted himself to the study of the Prehistoric People and studied stone tools from an evolutionary point of view and also their geographical distribution.


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