Georg zu Münster

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

Münster was born in Langelage near Osnabrück. In 1800 he became a Prussian official in the principalities of Brandenburg-Ansbach and Brandenburg-Bayreuth. 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. Münster assisted Georg August Goldfuss in writing his great work, Petrefacta Germaniae. Louis Agassiz and Georges Cuvier visited him at Bayreuth, where he donated them part of his collection. He died in Bayreuth.

The Graf-Münster-Gymnasium in Bayreuth was named after him.

References

•  Chisholm, Hugh, ed (1911). "Münster, Georg". Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. 
• Gümbel, Wilhelm von (1886) (in German). "Münster, Georg Graf zu". In Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). 23. Leipzig: Duncker & Humblot. pp. 27–29.
• Viohl, Günther: Münster, Georg Graf zu. In: Neue Deutsche Biographie (NDB). Band 18. Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1997, p. 537 f. (German)

External links

• 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

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Date of birth	February 17, 1776
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Date of death	December 23, 1844
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