Georg zu Münster
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Count Georg Ludwig Friedrich Wilhelm zu Münster (German: Georg Graf zu Münster; 17 February 1776 – 23 December 1844) was a German paleontologist.
Biography
[edit]Münster was born on 17 February 1776[1] in Langelage, near Osnabrück. In 1800, he reportedly became a Prussian official in the principalities of Brandenburg-Ansbach and Brandenburg-Bayreuth. He assembled a renowned fossil collection, which was eventually acquired by the Bavarian state and became the foundation of the palaeontological museum in Munich.[1]
Münster assisted Georg August Goldfuss in writing his great work, Petrefacta Germaniae.[1] Louis Agassiz and Georges Cuvier are said to have visited him at Bayreuth, where he reportedly donated part of his collection to them.[2] He died in Bayreuth on 23 December 1844.[1]
The Graf-Münster-Gymnasium in Bayreuth, the city's largest school [3], was founded in 1833[4] and named in his honour.
References
[edit]- ^ a b c d Chisholm 1911.
- ^ Rozefelds, Andrew (February 2020). "The History of Fossil Fish Private Collection". Memoirs of the Queensland Museum – Nature. 62: 1–16. Retrieved 27 May 2025.
- ^ "Graf-Münster-Gymnasium feiert Jubiläum - Der Dino lebt" in Kurier, Frank Schmälzle 13 July 2008
- ^ Festschrift 175 Jahre Königliche Kreis-, Landwirtschafts- und Gewerbeschule, Realschule, Oberrealschule, Graf-Münster-Gymnasium Bayreuth (table of contents only)
Notes
[edit]- This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Münster, Georg". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 19 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 11.
Further reading
[edit]- Gümbel, Wilhelm von (1886). "Münster, Georg Graf zu". Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (in German). Vol. 23. Leipzig: Duncker & Humblot. pp. 27–29.
- Viohl, Günther (1997). "Münster, Georg Graf zu". Neue Deutsche Biographie (in German). Vol. 18. Berlin: Duncker & Humblot. pp. 537–538.
External links
[edit]- https://web.archive.org/web/20100117150328/http://www.barnick.de/bt/wer/grafmuenster.htm
- http://did.mat.uni-bayreuth.de/~gmg/info/muenster/muenster.html
- http://fossilien-news.blog.de/?tag=georg-graf-zu-m%FCnster[permanent dead link]
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