Karl Eduard (Eduard) von Eichwald
1795–1876
Baltic German geologist and palaeontologist. MD, Vilna (now Vilnius) University, 1819. Lecturer in zoology, Dorpat (now Tartu) University, 1821–3; professor, Kazan University, 1823–7; professor of zoology, comparative anatomy, and obstetrics, Vilna University, 1827–38; St Petersburg, 1838–55. Collected fossils from all over Russia and from 1853 to 1868 published on them in his Lethaea Rossica. A supporter of evolutionary theory after the publication of Origin.
Sources
DSB
NDB.
Bibliography
DSB: Dictionary of scientific biography. Edited by Charles Coulston Gillispie and Frederic L. Holmes. 18 vols. including index and supplements. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons. 1970–90.
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–.
