Friederich von Huene was a German paleontologist.
Biography[]
He was born in Tubingen to a noble family. His father was a minister who studied theology and his mother was from an Estonian noble family. The family was very religious. Friederich grew up in Switzerland. He collected fossils as a young child. He studied in a Swiss gym. He later attended the University of Lausanne to study theology and natural sciences.
He then went to Tubingen to study paleontology and natural sciences. In 1901 he went to several museums and met many paleontologists. In 1898 he studied brachiopods. In 1902 he then went on to study Triassic dinosaurs. In 1904 he married Theodora Lawton and they had five daughters.
He was not a person who preferred to write textbooks and wasn’t a good teacher either. In 1911 he traveled to the United States. During the First World War he served as a Calvary officer. However he didn’t get any academic positions and even applied to Stanford. In 1925 he received an offer from University of Cordoba in Argentina, but he refused it.
Paleontology[]
He studied lots of specimens of Plateosaurus and even named the clades Prosauropoda and Sauropodomorpha.