Friedrich Adolph Roemer
1809–69
German geologist and palaeontologist. Government official in the Mining Office, Clausthal, 1843. Professor of geology and mineralogy at the Mining School, Clausthal, 1845; director, 1862.
Sources
ADB
DSB
EB.
Bibliography
ADB: Allgemeine deutsche Biographie. Under the auspices of the Historical Commission of the Royal Academy of Sciences. 56 vols. Leipzig: Duncker & Humblot. 1875–1912.
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.
EB: The Encyclopædia Britannica. A dictionary of arts, sciences, literature and general information. 11th edition. 29 vols. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1910–11.
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