Established Bohemian National Museum in Prague, considered founder of modern paleobotany
Count Kaspar Maria von Sternberg (also: Caspar Maria, Count Sternberg, German: Kaspar Maria Graf Sternberg, Czech: hrabě Kašpar Maria Šternberk; 1761, Prague – 1838, Březina Castle) was a Bohemian theologian, mineralogist, geognost, entomologist and botanist. He is known as the "Father of Paleobotany".[citation needed]. His parents were Count Johann Nepomuk von Sternberg and Countess Anna Josefa Kolowrat-Krakowsky.
He established the Bohemian National Museum in Prague, where his collection of minerals, fossils and plant specimens formed the core collection,[1] and he is deemed to be the founder of modern paleobotany. As of 1820 he was on friendly terms with Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.
Originally a student of theology, he attended the Collegium anglicum in Rome, from where he obtained a lower ordination. Inspired by the newly founded Regensburg Botanical Society (1790), he became an avid naturalist, subsequently becoming a prominent member of the society, making contributions to its Botanisches Taschenbuch and also establishing a botanical garden in Regensburg. In 1805, during an extended stay in Paris, he met with Alexander von Humboldt and came under the influence of a number of French paleontologists and botanists. Afterwards, he relocated to an estate in Radnice, Bohemia. Here, he created a botanical garden, and conducted important paleobotanical research at recently opened coal mines located in the surrounding areas.[1][2]
The botanical genus Sternbergia is named in his honor.[3]
^ abČeská pošta Philately, Kaspar Maria von Sternberg (1761 - 1838)
^Biography @ Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie
^Missouri Botanical Garden Sternbergia lutea
and 22 Related for: Kaspar Maria von Sternberg information
German paleontologist Ernst Friedrich von Schlothiem, and Czech nobleman and scholar, KasparMariavonSternberg. As paleobotany is the specification of...
VonSternberg may refer to: Constantin Ivanovich vonSternberg (1852–1924), composer Josef vonSternberg (1894–1969), American film director Kaspar Maria...
with KasparMariavonSternberg. In 1821, having recovered from a near fatal heart illness, the 72-year-old Goethe fell in love with Ulrike von Levetzow...
Carl Borivoj Presl, Jan Svatopluk Presl, Karel Domin, KasparMariavonSternberg, Friedrich von Berchtold, Ferdinand Stoliczka, Wenceslas Bojer, Alberto...
Standley G. Ledyard Stebbins Berthold Stein Georg Wilhelm Steller KasparMariavonSternberg Julian Alfred Steyermark Jonathan Stokes Eduard Strasburger George...
and endemic Saxifraga species in the South-Eastern Alps. Count KasparMariavonSternberg described this species in his work Revisio Saxifragarum iconibus...
entomologist and naturalist, author of Manual of British Beetles KasparMariavonSternberg (1761–1838), Bohemian botanist, the "Father of Paleobotany" Karl...
seines Betriebes. 2 Bände, Breslau 1857ff. (digitalised Vol. 1) KasparMariavonSternberg: Umrisse einer Geschichte des Bergbaus und der Berggesetzgebung...
Museum by the museum's founder and president, the influential KasparMariavonSternberg, whom Corda had met during his time at Karlovy Vary and also at...
America and Europe. The species was first described in 1823 by KasparMariavonSternberg. The oldest North American occurrences date to the Paleocene of...
a geologist from Germany. The genus was described in 1820 by KasparMariavonSternberg. Noeggerathia and noeggerathialeans in general have been described...
Pius Anthonius Hubertus Marie Graf von Galen (16 March 1878 – 22 March 1946), better known as Clemens August Graf von Galen, was a German count, Bishop...
became a full professor. Zippe was a close associate of Count KasparMariavonSternberg, the founder of the Prague Museum of the Bohemian Kingdom (predecessor...
Count KasparMariavonSternberg, who had him as a companion and guide, in the herbal studies carried out in August 1803 in the Bassano area. Sternberg dedicated...
president of the Academy of Sciences, supreme chamber and hofmeister KašparMaria of Sternberg (1761–1838), botanist, geologist, paleobotanist and founder of...
Iconibus Illustrata (Regensberg, 1810–1822, Leipzig, 1831) du comte KasparMariavonSternberg ; System der Pilze und Schwämme (Wurbzerg, 1816) et Bryologia...
California (2003–2011) Erich von Stroheim (1885–1957), actor and film director Christoph Waltz (born 1956), actor Maria Weiss, mezzo-soprano and actress...
Wulfing von Stubenberg 1304-1318 Ulrich von Schlusselberg 1319 Konrad von Giech 1319-1322 Johannes von Schlackenwerth 1322-1324 Heinrich II vonSternberg 1324-1328...
Global Information