Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg was a German naturalist, zoologist, comparative anatomist, geologist, and microscopist. Ehrenberg was an evangelist and was considered to be one of the most famous and productive scientists of his time. Wikipedia
Born: April 19, 1795, Delitzsch, Germany
Died: June 27, 1876 (age 81 years), Berlin, Germany
Children: Johannes von Hanstein, Karl Friedrich August Rammelsberg, Helene von Hanstein, and more
Books: Das Leuchten des Meeres. Neue Beobachtungen nebst Übersicht der Hauptmomente der geschichtlichen Entwicklung dieses merkwürdigen Phänomens, Sylvae Mycologicae Berolinenses: Diss. Inaug. : Cum Tab. Aen, Passat-Staub und Blut-Regen – ein grosses organisches unsichtbares Wirken und Leben in der Atmosphäre, and more
Nationality: German
Grandchildren: Ludwig Bertus and Otfrid von Hanstein
Awards: Wollaston Medal