Georg zu Münster

Münster was born on 17 February 1776^[1] in Langelage, near Osnabrück. In 1800, he reportedly became a Prussian official in the principalities of Brandenburg-Ansbach and Brandenburg-Bayreuth. He assembled a renowned fossil collection, which was eventually acquired by the Bavarian state and became the foundation of the palaeontological museum in Munich.^[1]

Münster assisted Georg August Goldfuss in writing his great work, Petrefacta Germaniae.^[1] Louis Agassiz and Georges Cuvier are said to have visited him at Bayreuth, where he reportedly donated part of his collection to them.^[2] He died in Bayreuth on 23 December 1844.^[1]

The Graf-Münster-Gymnasium in Bayreuth, the city's largest school,^[3] was founded in 1833^[4] and named in his honour.