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{{Short description|German palaeontologist and politician}}
[[File:Ernst Friedrich von Schlotheim.jpg|thumb|Ernst Friedrich, Baron von Schlotheim.]]
'''Ernst Friedrich, Freiherr von Schlotheim''' (2 April 1764{{snd}}28 March 1832), [[Germany|German]] [[palaeontologist]] and politician, was born in [[Ebeleben|Allmenshausen]], [[Schwarzburg-Sondershausen]].
He was [[Privy Councillor]] and President of the Chamber at the court of [[Sachsen-Gotha|Gotha]]. Becoming interested in [[geology]] he gathered a very extensive collection of [[fossil]]s. In 1804 he published descriptions and illustrations of remarkable remains of ([[Carboniferous]]) plants, ''Ein Beitrag zur Flora der Vorwelt''.<ref name="EB1911">{{EB1911|inline=y|wstitle=Schlotheim, Ernst Friedrich, Baron von|volume=24|page=342}}</ref>
His more important work was entitled ''Die Petrefactenkunde'' (1820). In this he incorporated the plates used in his previous memoir and supplemented it by a folio atlas (1822), in which he illustrated his collection of petrified and fossil remains of the animal and vegetable kingdom of a former world. For the first time in Germany the fossils were named according to the [[binomial nomenclature|binomial system]] of [[Carl Linnaeus|Linnaeus]]. His specimens are preserved in the [[Berlin]] Museum. He died at [[Gotha (town)|Gotha]].<ref name="EB1911"/>
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