Albert Oppel
1831–65
German palaeontologist. Studied at Tübingen, 1851–3; student of Quenstedt. Travelled in Europe. Assistant in the Bavarian State Palaeontological Collection, Munich, 1858; professor extraordinarius, 1860; professor of palaeontology, 1861. Subdivided the Jurassic system into thirty-three zones using palaeontological content rather than lithographical features, allowing deposits to be correlated across countries.
Source
DSB.
Bibliography
DSB: Dictionary of scientific biography. Edited by Charles Coulston Gillispie and Frederic L. Holmes. 18 vols. including index and supplements. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons. 1970–90.
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