| Beyrich, Heinrich Ernst
Renowned German geologist of the 19th century. In 1865, he qualified as associate professor in geology and paleontology at the university in Berlin and the Mining Academy. After the foundation of the Provincial Geological Institute for Prussia and Thuringia in Berlin he became its director in 1873. He initiated the foundation of the German Geological Society (Deutsche geologische Gesellschaft). Between 1842 and 1843 he investigated the geology of Silesia and adjacent regions of the former Austro-Hungary (up to the Tatra Mountains). He introduced the first stratigraphical division of the sub-Variscan Cretaceous in Germany, studied trilobites, among others those from the Central Bohemia (1845-1846) and cephalopods of the Alpine Triassic. When studying the North German Tertiary deposits he was the first to define the Oligocene.
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born 31st August 1815, Berlin, died 9th July 1896, Berlin
