Carl Hermann Credner was a German

Germany

Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...

 earth scientist

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 and the son of Carl Friedrich Heinrich Credner

Carl Friedrich Heinrich Credner

Carl Friedrich Heinrich Credner was a German geologist from Waltershausen near Gotha. He was the father of Carl Hermann Credner.Credner investigated the geology of the Thuringian Forest, of which he published a map in 1846...

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Credner was born at Gotha

Gotha (town)

Gotha is a town in Thuringia, within the central core of Germany. It is the capital of the district of Gotha.- History :The town has existed at least since the 8th century, when it was mentioned in a document signed by Charlemagne as Villa Gotaha . Its importance derives from having been chosen in...

, educated at Breslau and Göttingen

Göttingen

Göttingen is a university town in Lower Saxony, Germany. It is the capital of the district of Göttingen. The Leine river runs through the town. In 2006 the population was 129,686.-General information:...

, and took the degree of Ph.D. at Breslau in 1864. In 1870 he was appointed professor of geology in the University of Leipzig

University of Leipzig

The University of Leipzig , located in Leipzig in the Free State of Saxony, Germany, is one of the oldest universities in the world and the second-oldest university in Germany...

, and in 1872 director of the Geological Survey

Geological survey

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 of Saxony

Kingdom of Saxony

The Kingdom of Saxony , lasting between 1806 and 1918, was an independent member of a number of historical confederacies in Napoleonic through post-Napoleonic Germany. From 1871 it was part of the German Empire. It became a Free state in the era of Weimar Republic in 1918 after the end of World War...

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He is author of numerous publications on the geology of Saxony, and of an important work, Elemente der Geologic (2 vols., 1872; 7th ed., 1891), regarded as the standard manual in Germany. He also wrote memoirs on Saurians and Labyrinthodonts.