Background
Credner was born at Gotha, educated at Breslau and Göttingen, and took the degree of Doctor of Philosophy at Breslau in 1864.
paleontologist university professor
Credner was born at Gotha, educated at Breslau and Göttingen, and took the degree of Doctor of Philosophy at Breslau in 1864.
University of Göttingen.
From 1864 to 1868, he made extensive geological investigations in North and Central America, the results of which were published in the Zeitschrift der Deutschen Geologischen Gesellschaft, and the Neues Jahrhuch für Mineralogie. In 1870 he was appointed professor of geology in the University of Leipzig, and in 1872 director of the Geological Survey of Saxony.
Saxonian Academy of Sciences. German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina.