Wilhelm Hauchecorne

Heinrich Lambert Wilhelm Hauchecorne (13 August 1828–15 January 1900) was a German geologist of French Huguenot parentage who was born in Aachen.

[1] Among his instructors were Heinrich Ernst von Beyrich (1815–1896), Gustav Rose (1798–1873) and Christian Samuel Weiss (1780–1856).

He also introduced a standardization of color-codes for use on German geological maps that was eventually adopted throughout Europe.

Hauchecorne belonged to the leading members of the "German Society for Popular Science" (Deutsche Gesellschaft für volkstümliche Naturkunde), founded in Berlin in 1894.

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Relief of Hauchecorne, located at his gravesite.