| Gutbier, Christian August von born 11th June 1798, Rosswein (west of Dresden), died 9th May 1866, Dresden Officer of the Saxon garrison in Zwickau. As a self-taught person showing interest in natural science he studied Carboniferous strata in the environs of the garisson in the years 1821-1847. Between 1853 and 1863 he was „Unterkommandant“ of the Königstein fortress. In 1853, he retired to Dresden. His most important papers include: 'Geognostische Beschreibung des Zwickauer Schwarzkohlengebirges' (1834), 'Die Versteinerungen des Rothliegenden in Sachsen' (Dresden, Leipzig (1849), 'Geognostische Skizzen aus der Sächsischen Schweiz (Leipzig' (1858).
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