Georg Baur
Georg Hermann Carl Ludwig Baur is a German zoologist , born the January 4th 1859 in Weisswasser in Bohemia (today Bílá Voda in Czech Republic) and dead the June 25th 1898 with Munich.
It with the chance to follow the courses of the largest anatomists and German paleontologists of the time like Carl Theodor Ernst von Siebold (1804-1885) and Karl Alfred von Zittel (1839-1904) of the university of Munich, Rudolf Leuckart (1822-1898) and Julius Victor Carus (1823-1903) of the university of Leipzig.
It obtains its doctorate in Munich in 1882 and is, during some time, assisting in Histologie. It obtains, in 1884, the station of assistant of Othniel Charles Marsh (1831-1899) in Yale College with the the United States. It leaves its functions in 1890 following argument growing with Marsh and because it cannot obtain a post of professor of anatomy.
He is then engaged by the Clark university of the Massachusetts. He goes on a journey five months in the archipelago of the Galapagos from where he brings back important collections.
In 1892, the new university of Chicago creates a department of biology and recruiting all the personnel of the Clark university, of which Baur. This one obtains a station of professor-assistant of Ostéologie compared and Paléontologie.
Baur starts to develop signs of driving paralysis. In 1897 His/her friends persuade it to go back to Munich to rest there but its state is degraded and he is hospitalized and he dies shortly after in 39 years.
He had almost finished a vast monograph of the tortoise S of North America and is published only partly by Oliver Perry Hay (1846-1930) in 1908.
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