1911 Encyclopædia Britannica/Schlotheim, Ernst Friedrich, Baron von
SCHLOTHEIM, ERNST FRIEDRICH,  (1764-1832),
German palaeontologist, was born in Grafschaft Schwarzburg
on the 2nd of April 1764. He was Privy Councillor and
President of the Chamber at the court of Gotha. Becoming
interested in geology he gathered together a very extensive
collection of fossils. In 1804 he published descriptions and
illustrations of remarkable remains of (Carboniferous) plants,
Ein Beitrag zur Flora der Vorwelt. His more important work
was entitled Die Petrefactenkunde (1820). In this he incorporated
the plates used in his previous memoir and supplemented it by
a folio atlas (1822), in which he illustrated his collection “of
petrified and fossil remains of the animal and vegetable kingdom
of a former world.” For the first time in Germany the fossils
were named according to the binomial system. The specimens
are preserved in the Berlin Museum. He died at Gotha on the
28th of March 1832.