Heinrich Dau

Johann Heinrich Christfried Dau (1790–1831) was a Holstein-Danish geologist and writer, whose identification of peat layers led eventually to a system of classifying and dating post-glacial northern European paleoclimate periods, the "Blytt-Sernander" sequences based on peat stratigraphy.

He died at Altona, Hamburg in 1831.

Selected publications

  • Neues Handbuch über Torf, dessen Natur, Entstehung und Wiedererzeugung, Nutzen im Allgemeinen und für den Staat, Leipzig, 1823.
  • Allerunterthänigster Bericht an die Königliche Dänische Rentekammer über die Torfmoore Seelands nach einer im Herbste 1828 deshalb unternommenen Reise. Copenhagen and Leipzig, 1829.
  • Om Retfærdighed og Frihed og deres nødvendige Samværen, især i politisk Henseende, Copenhagen, 1831.

Further reading

  • Axel Garboe, Geologiens historie i Danmark
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