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Friedrich Heinrich Emanuel Kayser
1911 Encyclopedia Britannica
or FRIEDRICH HEINRICH EMANUEL KAYSER (1845-), German geologist and palaeontologist, was born at Konigsberg, on the 26th of March 1845. He was educated at Berlin where he took his degree of Ph.D. in 1870. In 1882 he became professor of geology in the university at Marburg. He investigated fossils of various ages and from all parts of the world, but more especially from the Palaeozoic formations, including those of South Africa, the Polar regions, and notably the Devonian fossils of Germany, Bohemia and other parts of Europe.
Among his separate works are Lehrbuch der Geologie (2 vols., ii.), Geologische Formationskunde 1891 (2nd ed., 1902), and i. Allgemeine Geologie (1893), vol. ii. (the volume first issued) was translated and edited by P. Lake, 1893, under the title Textbook of Comparative Geology. Another work is Beitrdge zur Kenntniss der Fauna der Siegenschen Grauwacke (1892).
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Chisholm, Hugh, General Editor. Entry for 'Friedrich Heinrich Emanuel Kayser'. 1911 Encyclopedia Britanica. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/bri/f/friedrich-heinrich-emanuel-kayser.html. 1910.
