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WAAGEN, WILHELM HEINRICH (18411900)

This article appears in Volume V28, Page 224 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: VIR-WAT
WAAGEN, WILHELM HEINRICH (18411900) , German palaeontologist, was born at
Munich
  on the 23rd of June 184'. He was educated at
Munich
  and Zurich, and through the influence of A. Oppel he commenced to study the rocks and fossils of the Jurassic
system
 , and published an essay in '865, Versuch einer Allgemeinen Classification der Schichten des oberen Jura. In '87o he joined the staff of the
Geological
  Survey of India, and was appointed palaeontologist in 1874, but was obliged to retire through ill-health in '875. He published important monographs in the Palaeontologia Indicts on the palaeontology of
Cutch
  (1873'876) and the Salt Range (18791883), dealing in the last-named wort: -vith fossils from the Lower Cambrian to the Trias. In 1879 he was appointed professor of
mineralogy
  and geology in the German technical high school at Prague, and he became a contributor to the continuation of
Barrande
 's
great
 
work
  on the SystEme Silurien de Bohe"me. In 1890 he became professor of palaeontology at the university of Vienna, and in '898 the Lyell
medal
  was awarded to him by the
Geological
  Society of London. He died in Vienna on the 24th of
March
  1900.


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