Ernst Erhard Schmid
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He studied natural sciences at the universities of Jena and Vienna, receiving his doctorate in 1839. In 1843 he became an associate professor at Jena, where with Matthias Jakob Schleiden, he founded a physiological institute. At the institute he dealt with subjects that included mineralogy, geology, chemistry and physics. In 1856 he was appointed a professor of natural sciences at the University of Jena.
In 1848 the ichthyopterygian species ''Tholodus schmidi'' was named in his honor by Christian Erich Hermann von Meyer. Provided by Wikipedia
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Published: 1874
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