Carl Hermann Georg Credner (1 October 1841 – 21 July 1913) was a German

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and the son of Carl Friedrich Heinrich Credner.

Biography

Credner was born at

Gotha Gotha () is the fifth-largest city in Thuringia, Germany, west of Erfurt and east of Eisenach with a population of 44,000. The city is the capital of the district of Gotha and was also a residence of the Ernestine Wettins from 1640 until the ...

, educated at Breslau and

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, and took the degree of Ph.D. at Breslau in 1864. From 1864 to 1868, he made extensive geological investigations in North and Central America, the results of which were published in the ''Zeitschrift der Deutschen Geologischen Gesellschaft'', and the ''Neues Jahrhuch für Mineralogie''. In 1870 he was appointed professor of geology in the

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, and in 1872 director of the

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Saxony Saxony (german: Sachsen ; Upper Saxon: ''Saggsn''; hsb, Sakska), officially the Free State of Saxony (german: Freistaat Sachsen, links=no ; Upper Saxon: ''Freischdaad Saggsn''; hsb, Swobodny stat Sakska, links=no), is a landlocked state of ...

Works

He is author of numerous publications on the geological formations of Saxony, and published a geological chart of the Kingdom of Saxony (1877 et seq.). He wrote ''Elemente der Geologie'' (2 vols., 1872; 7th ed., 1891), regarded as the standard manual in Germany. He also wrote memoirs on Saurians and

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s, for example ''Die Stegocephalen und Saurier'' (1881–93). He also wrot
''Die Urvierfüssler (Eotetrapoda) des sächsischen Rothliegenden''
(1891).

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* * * This source says he was a professor at the University of Göttingen before moving on to Leipzig.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Credner, Carl Hermann 1841 births 1913 deaths People from Gotha (town) People from Saxe-Coburg and Gotha German paleontologists University of Breslau alumni University of Göttingen alumni Academic staff of Leipzig University