Wednesday, October 19, 2011
Georg August Goldfuss 1782-1848
He was a German palaeontologist and zoologist. George August Goldfuss was born April 18, 1782 and died October 2, 1848 at the age of 66. He was born at Thurnau near Bayreuth. This was the municipality in the district of Kulmbach, Germany. It's possible that he was baptised at the Evangelical Lutheran Church of St Laurentins, the church of Thurnau. There was even a castle in Thurnau.
Then he was educated at Erlangen, where he graduated Ph.D. in 1804 and became professor of zoology in 1818. He was subsequently appointed professor of zoology and mineralogy at the University of Bonn.
Count Georg zu Munster aided him to issue the important Petrefacta Germaniae (1826-44), a work which was intended to illustrate the invertebrate fossils of Germany, but it ws left incomplete after the sponges, corals, crinoids, echinoderms and part of the mollusea had been figured. He died at Bonn.
Ludwig von Beethoven was born in Bonn in 1770, and would have been 12 when Georg was born. Bonn was sized by the French in 1794 but became part of Prussia in 1815. It was Prussian when George died as it didn't get into German hands until 1871.
Resource: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georg_August_Goldfuss, forwarded by Albert Benhamou
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thurnau
Then he was educated at Erlangen, where he graduated Ph.D. in 1804 and became professor of zoology in 1818. He was subsequently appointed professor of zoology and mineralogy at the University of Bonn.
Count Georg zu Munster aided him to issue the important Petrefacta Germaniae (1826-44), a work which was intended to illustrate the invertebrate fossils of Germany, but it ws left incomplete after the sponges, corals, crinoids, echinoderms and part of the mollusea had been figured. He died at Bonn.
Ludwig von Beethoven was born in Bonn in 1770, and would have been 12 when Georg was born. Bonn was sized by the French in 1794 but became part of Prussia in 1815. It was Prussian when George died as it didn't get into German hands until 1871.
Resource: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georg_August_Goldfuss, forwarded by Albert Benhamou
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thurnau
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