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GEINITZ, HANS BRUNO (1814-1900)

This article appears in Volume V11, Page 553 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: GAG-GEO
GEINITZ, HANS BRUNO (1814-1900) , German geologist, was born at Altenburg, the
capital
  of the duchy of Saxe-Altenburg, on the 16th of October 1814. He was educated at the universities of Berlin and Jena, and gained the
foundations
  of his
geological
  knowledge under F. A. Quenstedt. In 1837 he took the degree of Ph.D. with a thesis on the Muschelkalk of Thuringia. In 185o he became professor of geology and
mineralogy
  in the Royal
Polytechnic
  School at Dresden, and in 1857 he was made director of the Royal Mineralogical and
Geological
  Museum; he held these posts until 1894. He was distinguished for his researches on the Carboniferous and Cretaceous rocks and fossils of Saxony, and in particular for those relating to the fauna and flora of the Permian or Dyas formation. He described also the
graptolites
  of the local
Silurian
  strata; and the flora of the Coal-formation of Altai and Nebraska. From 1863 to x878 he was one of the editors of the Neues Jahrbuch. He was awarded the Murchison
medal
  by the Geological Society of London in 1878. He died at Dresden on the 28th of January 'goo. His son FRANZ EUGEN GEINITZ (b. 1854), professor of geology in the university of
Rostock
 , became distinguished for researches on the geology of Saxony, Mecklenburg, &c.
H. B. Geinitz's publications were Das Quadersandsteingebirge oder Kreidegebirge in Deutschland (1849-1850); Die Versteinerungen der Steinkohlenformation in Sachsen (1855); Dyas, oder die Zechsteinformation and das Rothliegende (1861-1862) ; Das Elbthalgebirge in Sachsen (1871-1875).


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