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### Author
Münster, Georg Graf zu (1776-1844), German financial administrator and palaeontologist at Bayreuth.
**Abbreviated name**: *G. Münster* \[standard form in IPNI: *Münster*\]
#### Collection
München.
#### Bibliography and biography
ADB 23: 27-29; Andrews p. 305; Barnhart 2: 526 (b. 17 Feb 1776); BM 3: 1373, 7: 878; CSP 4: 545-546, 8: 472; Frank 3(Anh.): 69; Quenstedt p. 308 (b. 17 Feb 1776); PR (ed. 1: 7307); TL-2/1: 719, 2084.
- Anon., Bot. Not. 1845: 219 (d. 23 Dec 1844); Bot. Zeit. 3: 119. 1845; Flora 28: 64. 1844 (d. 23 Dec 1844).
- Breure, A. S. H. & J. G. de Bruijn, eds., Leven werken J. G. S. van Breda 21, 159, 214, 224. 1979.
- Pritzel, G. A., Linnaea 19: 458. 1846 (d. 23 Dec 1844).
- Zittel, K. A. von, Hist geol. palaeontol. 553 \[index\]. 1901.
#### Composite works
See G. A. Goldfuss, *Petref. Germ*. 1826-1844, TL-2/2084.
#### Eponymy
*Muensteria* Sternberg (1833).
### Publications
##### n.6535. Beiträge zur Petrefacten-Kunde
**Title**
*Beiträge zur Petrefacten-Kunde*... Bayreuth (im Verlag der Buchner'schen Buchhandlung) 1839-1846, 7 Hefte. Qu.
**Abbreviated title**: *Beitr. Petref.-Kunde*.
**Notes**
*1*(ed. 1): 1839, p. \[i-viii\], \[1\]-124. *pl. 1-18*, \[*19*\].
*1*(ed. 2): 1843 (P. v: Mar 1843), p. \[i-viii\], \[1\]-129, *pl. 1, 1a, 2, 3, 3a, 4, 4a, 5, 5a, 6, 6a, 7-18* (uncol.).
*2*: 1839, p. \[i-iii\], \[1\]-88, *pl. 1-29*.
*3*: 1840, p. \[i-iv\], \[1\]-132, *pl. 1-2, 3/4, 5-20* (uncol).
*4*: 1841, p. \[i-v\], \[1\]-152, *pl. 1-16*.
*5*: 1842, p. \[i\]-iv, \[1\]-131, *pl. 1-15*.
*6*: 1843, p. \[i-iii\], \[1\]-100, *pl. 1-14*.
*7*: 1846, p. \[i\]-iv, \[1, cont.\], \[1\]-66, *pl. 1-9*, frontisp. portr. author. Published by Rudolf Wilhelm Dunker (1809-1885).
*Copies*: MICH (1(ed. 2) & 5-7), PH, Teyler. – Münster was editor and, in part, author; other collaborators were August Heinrich Jac. von Althaus (1791-?), Ernst Friedrich Germar (1786-1853), Heinrich Röbert Göppert (1800-1884), Christian Erich Hermann von Meyer (1801-1869), Carl Theodor Ernst von Siebold (1804-1885), Franz Unger (1800-1870), Heinrich Ludolf Wissmann (1815-?).