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Heinrich Georg Bronn
1800Mar, 3

Heinrich Georg Bronn

Heinrich Georg Bronn, German geologist and paleontologist (d. 1862)
Heinrich Georg Bronn (3 March 1800 – 5 July 1862) was a German geologist and paleontologist. He was the first to translate Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species into German in 1860, although not without introducing his own interpretations, as also a chapter critiquing the work.

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