Emanuel Kayser

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Friedrich Heinrich Emanuel Kayser (26 March 1845Template:Snd 29 November 1927) was a German geologist and palaeontologist, born in Königsberg.

He was educated at the universities of Halle, Heidelberg and Berlin, where in 1871 he qualified as a lecturer in geology. From 1873 he worked as a state geologist for the Preußischen Geologischen Landesanstalt (Prussian Geological Survey), and in 1881 became a professor at the Berlin Mining Academy. In 1885 he succeeded Wilhelm Dunker as professor of geology and paleontology at the University of Marburg.<ref name=PA>Kayser Meyers Großes Konversations-Lexikon, Band 10. Leipzig 1907, S. 795-796.</ref><ref name=DB>Kayser, Emanuel In: Neue Deutsche Biographie (NDB). Band 11, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1977, Template:ISBN, S. 379–381</ref>

He is known for his work involving the stratigraphy, tectonics and paleontology of Paleozoic formations in Germany; especially the Harz and the Rhenish Massif.<ref name=PA/> With Wilhelm Dames, he was co-editor of the journal Paläontologischen Abhandlungen.<ref name=DB/>

Among his separate works are Lehrbuch der Geologie (2 vols.): ii. Geologische Formationskunde (1891; 2nd ed., 1902), and i. Allgemeine Geologie (1893); vol. ii. (the volume first issued) was translated and edited by Philip Lake, under the title Textbook of Comparative Geology (1893).<ref>Template:Cite journal</ref> Another work is Beiträge zur Kenntniss der Fauna der Siegenschen Grauwacke (1892).<ref name="EB1911">{{#if: |

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Posthumous honours

Kayser Bjerg, a mountain in Greenland, was named after him.

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