Christian Leopold von Buch, German geologist and paleontologist (died 1853)

Christian Leopold von Buch

German geologist (1774–1853)

Christian Leopold von Buch, usually cited as Leopold von Buch, was a German geologist and paleontologist born in Stolpe an der Oder and is remembered as one of the most important contributors to geology in the first half of the nineteenth century. His scientific interest was…