George of Munster
Georg Graf zu Münster , with full name Georg Ludwig Friedrich Wilhelm Graf zu Münster, (born February 17, 1776 at Gut Langelage ( Bohmte ), † December 23, 1844 in Bayreuth ) was a pioneer of paleontology .
origin
Georg Graf zu Münster belonged to the Westphalian noble family of Münster . His parents were the Hanoverian Oberlandesmarschall Ludwig zu Münster (1750–1790) and his wife Charlotte von Münchhausen (1755–1830), a daughter of Landdrosten von Harburg and botanist Otto von Münchhausen (1716–1774).
Life
He came to the Hohenzollerische Ansbach as a Prussian civil servant in 1800 , then to Bayreuth. With the creation of the Kingdom of Bavaria, he transferred to Bavarian services and became Bavarian Chamberlain and Government Director .
In his spare time and while traveling , he collected numerous fossils and made drawings of them. These were published by August Goldfuß ("Petrefacta Germaniae") and Carl Friedrich Wilhelm Braun ("Contributions to the prehistory of plants"). Louis Agassiz and Georges Cuvier visited him in Bayreuth, where he made finds available to them.
He also wrote some poems. Probably the most beautiful and best known is "The Church of Nature", an ode to the beauty of the forest.
Honors
In 1832 he was elected a member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina . In 1837 he became an honorary member of the Prussian Academy of Sciences .
The Graf-Münster-Gymnasium in Bayreuth was named after him.
Fonts
- About some excellent fossil fish teeth from the shell limestone near Bayreuth , pp. 1–4, 1 lithograph, FC Birner, Bayreuth 1830
- Preliminary news about some new reptiles in the Muschelkalke of Bavaria . In: New yearbook for mineralogy, geognosy, geology and petrefactics, Stuttgart 1834, pp. 521-527
- About the lime marl camp in St. Cassian in Tyrol and the ceratites that occur in it . In: New Yearbook for Mineralogy, Geognosy, Geology and Petrefactology, Stuttgart 1834, pp. 1–15, panels I – II
- Contributions to the Petrefacten customer , Buchner, Bayreuth 1839
- Asterias Weismanni . In: Contributions to the Petrefacten customer, issue 6, Bayreuth 1843, p. 78, plate II, Fig. 4
literature
- Wilhelm von Gümbel: Münster, Georg Graf zu . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 23, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1886, pp. 27-29.
- Viohl, Günther: Münster, Georg Graf zu. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 18, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-428-00199-0 , p. 537 f. ( Digitized version ).
Individual evidence
- ^ NN: Nekrolog. Zeitschrift für Malakozoologie, year 1845: p. 178, Hannover 1846 Online at www.biodiversitylibrary.org (p. 178)
- ↑ Georg von Münster's membership entry at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on November 25, 2015.
Web links
- Georg Graf zu Münster - an important palaeontologist of the 19th century on did.mat.uni-bayreuth.de
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Münster, Georg to |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Munster, Georg Ludwig Friedrich Werner Graf too |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German paleontologist |
DATE OF BIRTH | February 17, 1776 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Langelage near Osnabrück |
DATE OF DEATH | December 23, 1844 |
Place of death | Bayreuth |