Johann Heinrich Cotta was a German silviculturist who was a native of Kleine Zillbach, near Wasungen, Thuringia.
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Georg von NeumayerAlso won Cothenius Medal
Friedrich HarkortAlso won Order of the Red Eagle 3rd Class
Hugo MeurerAlso won Order of the Red Eagle 3rd Class
Franz Eilhard SchulzeAlso won Cothenius Medal
August W. EichlerAlso won Cothenius Medal
Christian Ehrenfried WeigelAlso won Order of the Red Eagle 3rd ClassAbout this person
Johann Heinrich Cotta was a German silviculturist who was a native of Kleine Zillbach, near Wasungen, Thuringia. He was founder of the Royal Saxon Academy of Forestry, in Tharandt, and is known as a pioneer of scientific forestry along with Georg Ludwig Hartig, Friedrich Wilhelm Leopold Pfeil, Johann Christian Hundeshagen, and Carl Justus Heyer. He was the father of the geologist Bernhard von Cotta (1808-1879).
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Lived 1763 to 1844 · aged 80
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