Georg August Goldfuss

Georg August Goldfuss

Georg August Goldfuss (Goldfuß, April 18, 1782 – October 2, 1848) was a German palaeontologist, zoologist and botanist.

Biography

Goldfuss was born at Thurnau near Bayreuth. 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. Aided by Count Georg zu Münster, he issued the important Petrefacta Germaniae (1826–44), a work which was intended to illustrate the invertebrate fossils of Germany, but it was left incomplete after the sponges, corals, crinoids, echinoderms and part of the mollusca had been figured. A collection of Goldfuss' botanical specimens are housed at Bonn University. Goldfuss died at Bonn.

References

Attribution

•  This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Goldfuss, Georg August". Encyclopædia Britannica. 12 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 211. 

Literature

• Georg Uschmann: Goldfuß, August. In: Neue Deutsche Biographie (NDB). Band 6. Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1964, p. 605. (German)
• Wolfhart Langer: Georg August Goldfuß - Ein biographischer Beitrag in: Bonner Geschichtsblätter, Band 23/1969, S. 229-243

External links

• Georg August Goldfuss in the German National Library catalogue (German)
• Georg August Goldfuß und die Gründungsjahre der Universität Bonn
• Goldfuß-Museum der Universität Bonn