Hermann Theodor Geyler
Paleontologist, botanist
About Hermann Theodor Geyler
Lived 1835 – 1889 (aged 54). Hermann Theodor Geyler was a botanist, paleontologist and university teacher.
Hermann Theodor Geyler (15 January 1835 at Schwarzbach – 22 March 1889 at Frankfurt-am-Main) was a German botanist, specializing in paleobotany.
Life Geyler was the son of Hermann Gustav and d’Adelgunde Schiller (née von Schillershausen). He studied botany at Leipzig and Jena and was awarded his doctorate in 1860. From 1864 to 1867, he worked in Basel, Switzerland with Swiss botanist Carl Eduard Cramer, a specialist of fossil woods. During this period, Geyler greatly expanded their collection of plants to include more than 4,000 varieties.
Works Geyler is notably the author of Über fossile Pflanzen aus Borneo (1875), one of the first works of scholarship on plant fossils of the tropics.
Among the species he described is Onychiopsis elongata, a fossil fern of the family Dicksoniaceae, from the Jurassic period.
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Who was Hermann Theodor Geyler?
paleontologist, botanist (1835-1889)
When was Hermann Theodor Geyler born?
Hermann Theodor Geyler was born on 15 January 1835 in Schwarzbach.
When did Hermann Theodor Geyler die?
Hermann Theodor Geyler died on 22 March 1889 in Frankfurt.
What was Hermann Theodor Geyler's occupation?
Hermann Theodor Geyler was a botanist, paleontologist and university teacher.
What nationality was Hermann Theodor Geyler?
Hermann Theodor Geyler's recorded nationality: Duchy of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach.
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