Oswald Heer
Oswald Heer (August 31st 1809 - September 27th 1883), is a geologist and naturalist Suisse.
It is born with Niederuzwil in the Canton from Saint-Gall. It receives an religious education and enters the orders, then it obtains its doctorate in Philosophie and Médecine. It is interested early in the Entomologie and later being studied of the Plante S. It is one of the pioneers of the Paléobotanique, subject on which he is characterized by his research on the flora from the Miocène.
In 1851 he becomes professor of Botanique to the Université of Zurich and is directed towards the study of the plants and the Insecte S of the Tertiaire in Suisse. In 1863, with William Pengelly (1812-1894) it studies the remainders Fossile S of plants of the deposits of Lignite S of Bovey Tracey in the Devonshire, regarding them as belonging to the Miocène. They are classified nowadays in the Eocene .
Heer also wrote on the flora of the Miocène of the areas Arctique S, on the plants found in the lignites of Dürten close to the Lake Zurich, and on the Céréale S of certain lake sites ( Die Pflanzen der Pfahlbauten , 1866).
During most of its career it is obstructed by weak resources and by its bad health but its services with science were recognized by the Geological Society off London which rewards it by the Médaille Wollaston in 1874. He is also prize winner of the Royal Medal in 1877. He dies in Lausanne on September 27th, 1883.
Publications
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Flora Tertiaria Helvetiae 3 volumes 1855 - 1859
- Die Urwelt der Schweiz 1865
- Flora fossilis Arctica 1868 - 1883