Carl Bernhard von Cotta
1808–79
German geologist, palaeontologist, stratigrapher, mineralogist, and economic geologist. Made studies of mineral deposits of the eastern Alps, Hungary, and Romania. Studied the effects of soils on German geography and history. Published geological maps of Saxony in association with C. F. Nauman, professor of geognosy and geological mineralogy (Lagerstättenkunde), Freiberg University, 1836–44, and University of Thuringia, 1845–7. Appointed professor of geology, Freiberg University, 1842. Author of text-books, biographical memoirs, and popular works on geology. Published Modern geology (1866).
Sources
DBE
NDB
Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London (Proceedings) 36 (1880): 40–2, Sarjeant 1980–96.
Bibliography
DBE: Deutsche biographische Enzyklopädie. Edited by Walter Killy et al. 12 vols. in 14. Munich: K. G. Saur. 1995–2000.
NDB: Neue deutsche Biographie. Under the auspices of the Historical Commission of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences. 27 vols. (A–Wettiner) to date. Berlin: Duncker & Humblot. 1953–.
Sarjeant, William A. S. 1980–96. Geologists and the history of geology: an international bibliography. 10 vols. including supplements. London: Macmillan. Malabar, Fla.: Robert E. Krieger Publishing.
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