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Authorised form of nameVeltheim; August Ferdinand (1741 - 1801)
Dates1741 - 1801
Place of birthHarbke, near Helmstedt, Brunswick
Date of birth18 September 1741
Place of deathBrunswick
Date of death02 October 1801
Research fieldMineralogy
Geology
Archaeology
ActivityEducation:
Klosterberg; Doctor of Philosophy (1798, Helmstedt)
Career:
'Kammerassessor' in the Brunswick service, but gave up his post to travel with his father; returned as Kammerrath in the Hanoverian service (1764); Vice-Berghauptmann in the Harz (1768, for 31 years); retired as Berghauptmann (1795)
Membership categoryFellow
Date of election16/04/1795
SourceSources:
Bulloch's Roll
Notes:
Apparently the completely different Christian name on the certificate is "evidently an error" (Bulloch's Roll)
CodeNA2995
Archives associated with this Fellow
RefNoTitleDate
EC/1795/11Veltheim, August Ferdinand: certificate of election to the Royal Society
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