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Reinhold Lotze

1887–1951

A German science writer and educator, he is best known for making deep time and Earth history approachable for general readers. His work combines clear explanation with the curiosity and confidence of early twentieth-century popular science.

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Jahreszahlen der Erdgeschichte

Jahreszahlen der Erdgeschichte

by Reinhold Lotze

About the author

Born in 1887 and dying in 1951, Reinhold Lotze is chiefly remembered today for Jahreszahlen der Erdgeschichte (1922), a German book on geological chronology and the history of the Earth. The surviving catalog records linked to his name consistently place him in the world of science writing rather than fiction.

Lotze also appears in library records as a collaborator on school biology textbooks with Hermann Linder and Eugen Hübler. That suggests a career connected to science education as well as popular explanation, with a focus on presenting complex natural-history subjects in a form useful to students and general readers.

Reliable biographical details beyond these basic facts are limited in the sources I could confirm here, so it is safest to read him as a mid-century German author of accessible scientific works, especially in geology and biology.