Ernst Friedrich, Baron von Schlotheim
Ernst Friedrich, Freiherr von Schlotheim (2 April 1764 – 28 March 1832),
palaeontologist and politician, was born in Allmenshausen, Schwarzburg-Sondershausen
.
He was
Gotha. Becoming interested in geology he gathered a very extensive collection of fossils. In 1804 he published descriptions and illustrations of remarkable remains of (Carboniferous) plants, Ein Beitrag zur Flora der Vorwelt.[1]
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
Gotha.[1]
References
- ^ a b One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Schlotheim, Ernst Friedrich, Baron von". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 24 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 342.
- ^ International Plant Names Index. Schloth.
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