About Heinrich Dau
Lived 1790 – 1831 (aged 40–41). Heinrich Dau was a German geologist and writer.
Johann Heinrich Christfried Dau (1790–1831) was a Holstein-Danish geologist and writer, whose identification of peat layers led eventually to a system of classifying and dating post-glacial northern European paleoclimate periods, the Blytt–Sernander sequences based on peat stratigraphy.
He died at Altona, Hamburg in 1831.
Selected publications Neues Handbuch über Torf, dessen Natur, Entstehung und Wiedererzeugung, Nutzen im Allgemeinen und für den Staat, Leipzig, 1823. Allerunterthänigster Bericht an die Königliche Dänische Rentekammer über die Torfmoore Seelands nach einer im Herbste 1828 deshalb unternommenen Reise. Copenhagen and Leipzig, 1829. Om Retfærdighed og Frihed og deres nødvendige Samværen, især i politisk Henseende, Copenhagen, 1831.
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Danish geologist
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Heinrich Dau was born in 1790.
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Heinrich Dau died in 1831.
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Heinrich Dau was a geologist and writer.
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Heinrich Dau was German.
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