Background
He was born in Waltershausen, Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg.
He was born in Waltershausen, Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg.
He studied at the universities of Freiberg and Göttingen, and in 1836 was appointed by the Ducal Government warden of the mint.
In 1839 he became surveyor of mines, in 1850 mining councilor, and in 1854 State and mining councilor. He was in 1858 appointed by the government of Hanover superior mining councilor and reporting councilor to the finance ministry, in which capacity he had under his supervision all the Hanoverian mining works, including the important ones of the Harz. From 1868 until his death, he was mining privy councilor and director of mining in the Halle district.
He died at Halle in 1876.
He was the father of Carl Hermann Credner, also a geologist.