Hermann Credner

Credner was born at Gotha, the son of Privy Council Member Heinrich and Annanée Vey.

[1] 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.

His students included Felix Wahnschaffe (1851–1914) and he collaborated with many geologists of the period including Richard Beck (1858–1919), Karl Dalmer (1855–1908), Ernst Dathe (1845–1917), Joseph Hazard (1851–1908), Otto Hermann (1859–1945), Gustav Klemm (1858–1938), Johannes Lehmann (1851–1925), Albrecht Penck (1858–1945), August Rothpletz (1853–1918), Adolf Sauer (1852–1932), Ferdinand Schalch (1848–1918), Theodor Siegert (1835–1913), Heinrich August Vater (1859–1930) and Emil Weber (1859–1928).

He wrote Elemente der Geologie (2 vols., 1872; 7th ed., 1891), regarded as the standard manual in Germany.

He also wrote memoirs on Saurians and Labyrinthodonts,[1] for example Die Stegocephalen und Saurier (1881–93).