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Born December 8, 1786 • Freiberg • Germany
Died December 12, 1855 (aged 69) • Switzerland
Subjects Of Study glaciation
Albert Heim
Swiss geologist
Eduard Brückner
Austrian geographer and climatologist
Reid, Harry Fielding
Harry Fielding Reid
American seismologist
Marcel Roland de Quervain
Swiss scientist
Oskar Minkowski
German physiologist
Henry Melchior Mühlenberg
American clergyman
Marcel Schlumberger
German geophysicist
Hans Eysenck
German-born British psychologist
Jakob Fugger II the Rich
German merchant
Anton Fugger
German merchant
Rolf Hochhuth
German writer
Reinhard Gehlen
German general
Barthel Beham
German engraver
Bernard II
German duke
Johann Georg Cotta
German publisher [1631–1692]
Johann Friedrich Cotta, Freiherr von Cottendorf
German publisher
Friedrich William Heinrich Benda
German musician
August Boeckh
German scholar
Johann Heinrich Alsted
German logician
Pina Bausch
German ballet dancer and choreographer