Bronn, HEINRICH GEORG, a German naturalist, born at Ziegelhausen, 1800, was educated at Heidelberg, where in 1828 he commenced a course of lectures on natural history and palæontology. In 1833 he was nominated professor of Physics, and was afterwards appointed to the zoological lectureship. In 1834 appeared his most important geological work, Lethæa Geognostea; in 1841-49 his Geschichte der Natur; and in 1850 his Allgemeine Zoologie, which was the first attempt to develop zoology in its entirety with reference to extinct organisms. Bronn died 5th July 1862.
Bronn, HEINRICH GEORG
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