Ernst Erhard Schmid, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Ernst Erhard Schmid

German paleontologist

Date of Birth: 22-May-1815

Place of Birth: Hildburghausen, Thuringia, Germany

Date of Death: 16-Feb-1885

Profession: university teacher, paleontologist, mineralogist

Zodiac Sign: Gemini

Ernst Erhard Friedrich Wilhelm Schmid (22 May 1815 in Hildburghausen – 16 February 1885 in Jena) was a German paleontologist.
He was the son of law professor Karl Ernst Schmid (1774–1852). He studied natural sciences at the universities of Jena and Vienna, receiving his doctorate in 1839.
In 1843 he became an associate professor at Jena, where with Matthias Jakob Schleiden, he founded a physiological institute.
At the institute he dealt with subjects that included mineralogy, geology, chemistry and physics.
In 1856 he was appointed a professor of natural sciences at the University of Jena.In 1848 the ichthyopterygian species Tholodus schmidi was named in his honor by Christian Erich Hermann von Meyer.