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COUNT ZU GEORG MONSTER (1776-1844)

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Originally appearing in Volume V19, Page 11 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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COUNT ZU GEORG MONSTER (1776-1844)  , German palaeontologist, was born on the 17th of
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February 1776 . 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 . Count Munster assisted Goldfuss in his
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great
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work Petrefacta Germaniae . He died at Bayreuth on the 23rd of December 1844 .

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