| Authorised form of name | Konig; Charles Dietrich Eberhard (1774 - 1851); botanist and mineralogist |
| Other forms of surname | Koenig |
| Dates | 1774 - 1851 |
| Nationality | German |
| Place of birth | Brunswick [Braunschweig], Duchy of Braunschweig-Lneburg [modern day Germany], Europe |
| Date of birth | 1774 |
| Place of death | British Museum, London, England, United Kingdom, Europe |
| Date of death | 6 September 1851 |
| DatesAndPlaces | Burial:
Kensal Green cemetery, London, England, United Kingdom, Europe |
| Research field | Natural history |
| Botany |
| Mineralogy |
| Activity | Education:
Georg-August University Gttingen (1795-1797); University of Erlangen (1797)
Career:
Arranged Queen Charlotte's natural history collections at Kew Palace (1800); assistant to John Dryander (Sir Joseph Bank's FRS librarian) (1801-1807); launched and edited 'Annals of Botany'; assistant keeper in Natural History department at the British Museum (1807); keeper of the Natural History department (1813); published geological articles for Abraham Rees's 'Cyclopaedia' (1811); published 'Icones fossilium sectiles' (1820-1825); keeper of British Museum's mineralogical and geological branch (1837)
Memberships:
Foreign Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences (1805); Foreign Member of the Gttingen Academy of Sciences and Humanities (1831)
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| Membership category | Fellow |
| Date of election | 18/01/1810 |
| RSActivity | Royal Society roles:
Foreign Secretary 1830-1837
Committee and panels:
Committee of Geology and Mineralogy (31 May 1837) ; Committee of Botany and Vegetable Physiology (31 May 1837) |
| OtherInfo | Konig often worked closely with Dr John Sims (FRS 1814) in writing, translating and illustrating the publication 'Annals of Botany'. As assistant keeper for the British Museum's natural history and modern curiosities department, he arranged and catalogued the entire mineralogical collection over the course of a decade. His working relationships with John E Gray (FRS 1832) and Robert Smirke were frequently described as tense. Throughout his life, Konig was in correspondence with German scholars and scientists, e.g. Carl Friedrich Gauß (FRS 1804). |
| Source | Sources:
Bulloch's Roll; DNB; ODNB
Kensal Green Cemetery 'Famous/Notable Residents'
Deutsche Biographie
https://kalliope-verbund.info/de/query?q=ead.creator.gnd%3D%3D%22116288728%22 [last accessed: 21/10/2021] |
| Virtual International Authority File | http://viaf.org/viaf/47509857 |
| Code | NA3679 |
| RefNo | Title | Date |
| EC/1809/07 | Konig, Charles Dietrich Eberhard: certificate of election to the Royal Society | |
| IM/002568 | Konig, Charles Dietrich Eberhard | 1831 |
| MC/4/197 | Letter from Charles [Dietrich Eberhard] Konig, [Keeper of department of minerals at the] British Museum, to Robert Brown, [Keeper of the department of botany at the British Museum] | 10 December 1847 |
| MC/2/254 | Letter from Charles [Dietrich Eberhard] Konig, [Keeper of the department of minerals at the] British Museum, to Dr. [Peter Mark] Roget, Secretary of the Royal Society | 1 June 1837 |
| MC/2/268 | Letter from Pasquale Stanislao Mancini, 122 Vico Lungo del Gelso, Napoli, to Charles [Dietrich Eberhard] Konig, [Foreign Secretary of the Royal Society] | 20 January 1838 |
| RR/1/262 | Referee's report by William Buckland, Charles Dietrich Eberhard Konig and Roderick Impey Murchison, on a paper 'Caves in Burrington Combe' by Williams | [c.1840] |
| RR/1/136 | Referee's report by Charles Dietrich Eberhard Konig, on a paper 'Welt Mechanik' by M Kropalschek | 14 October 1836 |
| MC/2/45 | Letter from Baron [Marie-Charles Theodore] de Damoiseau, Paris, to Charles [Dietrich Eberhard] Konig, Foreign Secretary of the Royal Society | 7 August 1832 |
| MC/2/244 | Letter from James Mease, Philadelphia, to Charles [Dietrich Eberhard] Konig, Foreign Secretary to the Royal Society | 24 March 1837 |
| CMP/1/1 | Minutes of a meeting of Council of the Royal Society | 1 December 1832 |
| CMP/1/2 | Minutes of a meeting of Council of the Royal Society | 13 December 1832 |
| MC/1/198 | Letter from [Edward William] Brayley, Bruce Castle, Tottenham, to Captain Edward Sabine, Secretary of the Royal Society | 17 February 1830 |
| RR/1/27 | Referee's report by Charles Dietrich Konig, on a paper 'Physical and geological observations on the lake of Oo near Bagneres de la chou, in the year 1831' by Nerée Boubée | [1830] |
| MC/2 | Volume 2 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society | 1832-1838 |
| MC/2/103 | Letter from Charles [Dietrich Eberhard] Konig, Athenaeum, to John William Lubbock, [Treasurer of the Royal Society] | 8 December 1833 |
| PT/8/9 | Paper, 'On a fossil human skeleton from Guadaloupe' by Charles Konig in a letter to the Rt Hon Sir Joseph Banks | 20 December 1813 |
| MC/1 | Volume 1 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society | 1800-1831 |
| MC/4 | Volume 4 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society | 1844-1850 |
| AP/21/6 | Unpublished paper, 'Observations on the dry-rot of ships, and an effectual method to prevent it pointed out' by James Mease | 1837 |
| AP/2/7 | Translation of abstract, ['Intensitas vis magneticæ terrestris ad mensuram absolutam revocata'] by [Karl Friedrich] Gauss | [1832] |