Georg zu Münster
{{Short description|German paleontologist}}
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Count Georg Ludwig Friedrich Wilhelm zu Münster ({{langx|de|Georg Graf zu Münster}}; 17 February 1776 – 23 December 1844) was a German paleontologist.
Biography
Münster was born on 17 February 1776,{{sfn|Chisholm|1911}} in Langelage near Osnabrück. In 1800, he became a Prussian official in the principalities of Brandenburg-Ansbach and Brandenburg-Bayreuth.{{citation need||date=September 2014}} 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.{{sfn|Chisholm|1911}}
Münster assisted Georg August Goldfuss in writing his great work, Petrefacta Germaniae.{{sfn|Chisholm|1911}}
Louis Agassiz and Georges Cuvier visited him at Bayreuth, where he donated them part of his collection.{{citation needed|date=September 2014}} He died in Bayreuth on 23 December 1844.{{sfn|Chisholm|1911}}
The Graf-Münster-Gymnasium in Bayreuth, the largest school in Bayreuth,[https://www.kurier.de/inhalt.bayreuth-der-dino-lebt.537300c6-bc5b-4940-86d6-a0656f093bf3.html "Graf-Münster-Gymnasium feiert Jubiläum - Der Dino lebt" in Kurier, Frank Schmälzle 13 July 2008] founded in 1833,[http://bvbr.bib-bvb.de:8991/exlibris/aleph/a23_1/apache_media/HHL8Q2JG8KVEQKM8JUBQTAAS94A7P4.pdf Festschrift 175 Jahre Königliche Kreis-, Landwirtschafts- und Gewerbeschule, Realschule, Oberrealschule, Graf-Münster-Gymnasium Bayreuth (table of contents only)] was named in his honour.
References
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Notes
- {{EB1911| wstitle=Münster, Georg |volume=19 |page=11}}
Further reading
- {{de-ADB|23|27|29|Münster, Georg Graf zu|Gümbel, Wilhelm von}}
- {{NDB|18|537|538|Münster, Georg Graf zu|Viohl, Günther}}
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{{dead link|date=January 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}
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Category:German paleontologists
Category:Honorary Knights Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath
Category:Scientists from Osnabrück
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