Georg zu Münster

Georg Graf zu Münster, full name Georg Ludwig Friedrich Wilhelm Graf zu Münster, ( born February 17, 1776 Good Langelage ( Bohmte ), † December 23, 1844 in Bayreuth) was a pioneer researcher as dinosaur paleontology.

Georg Graf zu Münster belonged to the noble family of Westphalia, Münster. He came as a Prussian civil servant in 1800 to Hohenzollerische Ansbach, then to Bayreuth. With the creation of the Kingdom of Bavaria, he came over in Bavarian Bavarian services and was chamberlain and government official.

In his spare time and traveling, he collected numerous fossils and made ​​drawings of it. These were published from August Goldfuß ( " Petrefacta Germaniae " ) and Carl Friedrich Braun ( "Contributions to the prehistory of plants"). Louis Agassiz and Georges Cuvier visited him in Bayreuth, where he put them finds available.

He also wrote some poems. Probably the most beautiful and most famous is "The Church of Nature", an ode to the beauty of the forest.

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