Georg zu Münster

Georg Graf zu Münster

Count Georg Ludwig Friedrich Wilhelm zu Münster (German: Georg Graf zu Münster; 17 February 1776 – 23 December 1844) was a German paleontologist.

Biography

Münster was born on 17 February 1776,^[1] in Langelage near Osnabrück. In 1800, he became a Prussian official in the principalities of Brandenburg-Ansbach and Brandenburg-Bayreuth.^{[citation needed]} He formed a famous collection of fossils, which was ultimately secured by the Bavarian state, and formed the nucleus of the palaeontological museum at Munich.^[1]

Münster assisted Georg August Goldfuss in writing his great work, Petrefacta Germaniae.^[1]Louis Agassiz and Georges Cuvier visited him at Bayreuth, where he donated them part of his collection.^{[citation needed]} He died in Bayreuth on 23 December 1844.^[1]

The Graf-Münster-Gymnasium in Bayreuth, the largest school in Bayreuth,^[2] founded in 1833,^[3] was named in his honour.

References

1. Chisholm 1911.
2. "Graf-Münster-Gymnasium feiert Jubiläum - Der Dino lebt" in Kurier, Frank Schmälzle 13 July 2008
3. Festschrift 175 Jahre Königliche Kreis-, Landwirtschafts- und Gewerbeschule, Realschule, Oberrealschule, Graf-Münster-Gymnasium Bayreuth (table of contents only)

Notes

•  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

• 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

• 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]}