query: languages_spoken_or_written melchior neumayr
supports: Munich (also in British English ) is the capital and largest city of the German state of Bavaria, on the banks of River Isar north of the Bavarian Alps. Munich is the third largest city in Germany, after Berlin and Hamburg, and the 12th biggest city of the European Union, with a population of above 1.5 million. The Munich Metropolitan Region is home to 5.8 million people. Hamburg (local pronunciation ; Low German/Low Saxon: "Hamborg" ), officially "Freie und Hansestadt Hamburg" (Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg), is the second largest city in Germany and the eighth largest city in the European Union. It is the second smallest German state by area. Its population is over 1.7 million people, and the wider Hamburg Metropolitan Region covers more than 5.1 million inhabitants. The city is situated on the river Elbe. Bavaria  is a federal state of Germany. Located in the German southeast with an area of 70,548 square kilometres (27,200 sq mi), Bavaria is the largest German state. Its territory comprises roughly a fifth of the total land area of Germany, and, with 12.9 million inhabitants, it is Germany's second most populous state. Munich, Bavaria's capital and largest city, is the third largest city in Germany. Melchior Neumayr ( October 24 , 1845 in Munich -- January 29 , 1890 ) , Austrian palaeontologist , the son of Max von Neumayr , a Bavarian Minister of State . He was educated in the university of Munich , and completed his studies at Heidelberg , where he graduated Ph.D. After some experience in field - geology under KW von Gümbel , he joined the Austrian geological survey in 1868 . Four years later he returned to Heidelberg , but in 1873 he was appointed professor of palaeontology in Vienna , and occupied this post until his death . His more detailed researches related to the Jurassic and Cretaceous ammonites and to the Tertiary freshwater Mollusca ; and in these studies he sought to trace the descent of the species . He dealt also with the zones of climate during the Jurassic and Cretaceous periods , and endeavoured to show that the equatorial marine fauna differed from that of the two temperate zones , and the latter from that of the arctic zone , much as the faunas of similar zones differ from each other in the present day ; see his Über klimatische Zonen während der Jura und Kreidezeit ( Denkschr . K. Akad . Wiss . Wien , 1883 ) ; he was author also of Erdgeschichte ( 2 vols , 1887 ) ; and Die Stämme des Thierreiches ( vol. 1 only , 1889 ) . The Alps are the highest and most extensive mountain range system that lies entirely in Europe, stretching approximately across eight Alpine countries: Austria, France, Germany, Italy, Liechtenstein, Monaco, Slovenia, and Switzerland. The mountains were formed over tens of millions of years as the African and Eurasian tectonic plates collided. Extreme shortening caused by the event resulted in marine sedimentary rocks rising by thrusting and folding into high mountain peaks such as Mont Blanc and the Matterhorn. Mont Blanc spans the FrenchItalian border, and at is the highest mountain in the Alps. The Alpine region area contains about a hundred peaks higher than 4000 metres (just over 13,000 feet).
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answer: german