Charles Konig
Geologist, Author
1774 – 1851
Who was Charles Konig?
Charles Dietrich Eberhard Konig or Karl Dietrich Eberhard König was a German naturalist.
He was born in Brunswick and educated at Göttingen. He came to England at the end of 1800 to organize the collections of Queen Charlotte. On the completion of this work he became assistant to Dryander, librarian to Joseph Banks. In 1807, he succeeded George Shaw as assistant keeper of the department of natural history in the British Museum. On the death of his superior in 1813, he took his place as keeper.
He later became keeper of geology and mineralogy, and turned his attention to minerals and fossils, arranging the recently acquired collection of Mr. Greville. He retained the post until his sudden death in London in 1851.
Konig anglicized his name upon his appointment as assistant keeper in 1807. In 1837, following a House of Commons Select Committee report on the British Museum, the Department of Natural History was divided into three branches, with Konig being put in charge of the Mineralogical and Geological branch.
Besides writing various papers for journals, Konig was associated with John Sims in the issue of Annals of Botany from 1805 to 1807.
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