Fritz Frech, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Fritz Frech

German paleontologist

Date of Birth: 16-Mar-1861

Place of Birth: Berlin

Date of Death: 28-Sep-1917

Profession: geologist, university teacher, paleontologist

Nationality: Germany

Zodiac Sign: Pisces

Fritz Daniel Frech (26 March 1861 – 28 September 1917) was a German geologist and paleontologist. Frech was born in Berlin.
He studied natural sciences at the universities of Leipzig, Bonn and Berlin, receiving his doctorate in 1882 with a thesis on the coral fauna of the Late Devonian period in Germany.
In 1887 he obtained his habilitation from the University of Halle, and in 1897 was appointed a full professor of geology and paleontology at the University of Breslau.
In 1912 he was named vice-president of the newly formed Paläontologischen Gesellschaft.
During World War I, he died in Aleppo while serving as a senior geologist under the command of the German army.He published extensively on fossil invertebrates, being especially interested in extinct fauna from a stratigraphic-geological perspective.
From 1913 he was an editor of the "Neues Jahrbuch für Mineralogie, Geologie and Paläontologie".