Ernst Dieffenbach
1811–55
German physician, naturalist, and geologist. Studied medicine at Giessen, 1828–33; MD, Zurich, 1835. Surgeon and naturalist to the New Zealand Company, 1839–40. Professor extraordinarius of geology and director of the mineralogical collection at Giessen, 1851–5. Translated CD’s Journal of researches into German (1844).
Sources
DBE
DNZB.
Bibliography
DBE: Deutsche biographische Enzyklopädie. Edited by Walter Killy et al. 12 vols. in 14. Munich: K. G. Saur. 1995–2000.
DNZB: A dictionary of New Zealand biography. Edited by G. H. Scholefield. 2 vols. Wellington, New Zealand: Department of Internal Affairs. 1940. The dictionary of New Zealand biography. Edited by W. H. Oliver et al. 5 vols. Auckland and Wellington, New Zealand: Department of Internal Affairs [and others]. 1990–2000.
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