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BORN on January 4, 1859, at Weisswasser (Bohemia), where for a time his father was Professor of Mathematics, Georg Baur passed his youth in Hessen and Württemberg. He went through the Gymnasium at Stuttgart, and in 1878 entered the University at Munich, taking up especially the study of palæontology, geology, zoology, and mineralogy. In 1880 he went to Leipzig, where he studied under Credner and Leukhart. Two years later he returned to Munich, and there obtained the degree of Doctor of Philosophy. He remained in Munich from 1882 to 1884 as assistant to Prof, von Kupffer, to whom he was much attached, and who in turn honoured him with his friendship. In 1884 Dr. Baur accepted a call to New Haven, Conn., as assistant to Prof. O. C. Marsh. He relinquished this position in 1890 to accept the post of docent at the Clark University of Worcester, Mass. A year later he succeeded, after great difficulties, in getting up an expedition to the Galapagos Islands, leaving in May and returning in October with a valuable collection of the flora and fauna of these interesting islands. In 1892 he went to Chicago University as Assistant Professor of Comparative Osteology and Palæontology, and was made Associate Professor in 1895.
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Professor Georg Baur. Nature 58, 350 (1898). https://doi.org/10.1038/058350a0
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