Guido Sandberger (29 May 1821 in

Dillenburg Dillenburg, officially Oranienstadt Dillenburg, is a town in Hesse's Gießen region in Germany. The town was formerly the seat of the old Dillkreis district, which is now part of the Lahn-Dill-Kreis. The town lies on the German- Dutch holiday roa ...

– 22 January 1879 in

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) was a German

paleontologist Paleontology, also spelled as palaeontology or palæontology, is the scientific study of the life of the past, mainly but not exclusively through the study of fossils. Paleontologists use fossils as a means to classify organisms, measure geolo ...

and

geologist A geologist is a scientist who studies the structure, composition, and History of Earth, history of Earth. Geologists incorporate techniques from physics, chemistry, biology, mathematics, and geography to perform research in the Field research, ...

. He was the brother of paleontologist Fridolin von Sandberger. From 1839 he studied natural sciences at the universities of

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and

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, and after graduation taught classes at the gymnasium in

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. From 1847 onward, he was a teacher at the ''Realgymnasium'' (grammar school) in Wiesbaden, where in 1853 he was appointed deputy headmaster. The palaeontological collection of the Sandberger brothers is presently located in the

Museum Wiesbaden The Museum Wiesbaden is a two-branch museum of Art museum, art and Natural history museum, natural history in the Hesse, Hessian capital of Wiesbaden, Germany. It is one of the three Hessian State museums, in addition to the museums in Hessian ...

Published works

With Fridolin von Sandberger, he published "''Die Versteinerungen des rheinischen Schichtensystems in Nassau''" ("Fossils of the Rhenish strata in

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", 1850–56). His other noteworthy written efforts are: * ''Die erste Epoche der Entwickelungs-geschichte des Erdkörpers'', 1845 – The first epoch of the history of development of the Earth. * ''Beobachtungen über mehrer schwierigere Puncte der Organisation der Goniatiten'', 1851 – Observations on several difficult points in organizing

goniatite Goniatids, informally goniatites, are ammonoid cephalopods that form the order Goniatitida, derived from the more primitive Agoniatitida during the Middle Devonian some 390 million years ago (around Eifelian stage). Goniatites (goniatitids) su ...

s. * ''Uebersicht der naturhistorischen Beschaffenheit des Herzogthums Nassau'', 1857 – Survey on the natural history of the

Duchy of Nassau The Duchy of Nassau (German language, German: ''Herzogtum Nassau'') was an independent state between 1806 and 1866, located in what became the Germany, German states of Rhineland-Palatinate and Hesse. It was a States of the Confederation of th ...

. * ''Kurze Betrachtungen über Sipho und Siphonaldute sowie uber Eizelle und andere äussere und innere Merkmale der Schale des gemeinen Schiffsbootes (Nautilus pompilius Linné)'', 1859 – Brief reflections on '' Sipho'' and the

siphonal canal The siphonal canal is an anatomical feature of the shells of certain groups of sea snails within the clade Neogastropoda. Some sea marine gastropods have a soft tubular anterior extension of the mantle called a siphon through which water i ...

. * ''Kurzer abriss der allgemeinen geologie. Ein übersichtlicher leitfaden für schüler und freunde der wissenschaft'', 1861 – Short outline of general geology.HathiTrust Digital Library
published works

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Sandberger, Guido 1821 births 1879 deaths People from Dillenburg 19th-century German geologists German paleontologists 19th-century German zoologists Heidelberg University alumni