Augustin Andreas Geyer

Augustin Andreas Geyer (born August 17, 1774 in Marktschorgast ; † January 12, 1837 in Banz Castle ) was a German Catholic clergyman and fossil collector.

Life

Augustin Andreas Geyer was born the son of a royal Bamberg civil servant. He attended the public school in Bamberg and entered the Benedictine Abbey of Banz Monastery on July 11, 1793 ; there he was ordained a priest on September 22, 1798 . In 1801 he was sacristy director and curator and 1,802 firm Assessor and sacristan .

He put together a collection of petrefacts from various finds, for example the remains of an ichthyosaurus , which he built up together with the ducal chancellery Carl Theodori and left in 1828 to the family of Duke Wilhelm in Bavaria , with the determination that the collection would be for the general benefit of researchers be kept at Banz Castle. The petrefact collection was of European importance at the time and was visited by many scientists and researchers who made plaster casts of the artefacts there. Today the collection of petrefacts is in the Museum Kloster Banz in Bad Staffelstein.

After the secularization of the monastery in 1803, he worked for some time in pastoral care and as a technology teacher for the secondary and Sunday schools in Bamberg until he was given the parish of Banz in 1815.

Individual evidence

^ Friedrich August Schmidt, Bernhard Friedrich Voight: New Nekrolog der Deutschen . BF Voigt, 1839 ( google.de [accessed January 20, 2018]).
↑ Weekly Bulletin for the Catholic Clergy: 1837, p. 40 . Lachmüller, 1837 ( google.de [accessed June 20, 2018]).
↑ Joachim Heinrich Jäck: Second pantheon of the writers and artists Bamberg from the XI. Centuries to 1844, p. 44 . Züberlein in Komm., 1844 ( google.de [accessed June 20, 2018]).
^ Bad Staffelstein - Banz Monastery Museum. Retrieved June 20, 2018 .

personal data
SURNAME	Geyer, Augustin Andreas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German Catholic clergyman and fossil collector
DATE OF BIRTH	17th August 1774
PLACE OF BIRTH	Schorgast market
DATE OF DEATH	January 12, 1837
Place of death	Banz Castle

[1] Friedrich August Schmidt, Bernhard Friedrich Voight: New Nekrolog der Deutschen . BF Voigt, 1839 ( google.de [accessed January 20, 2018]).

[2] Weekly Bulletin for the Catholic Clergy: 1837, p. 40 . Lachmüller, 1837 ( google.de [accessed June 20, 2018]).

[3] Joachim Heinrich Jäck: Second pantheon of the writers and artists Bamberg from the XI. Centuries to 1844, p. 44 . Züberlein in Komm., 1844 ( google.de [accessed June 20, 2018]).

[4] Bad Staffelstein - Banz Monastery Museum. Retrieved June 20, 2018 .