Karl Ludwig Fridolin von Sandberger

Karl Ludwig Fridolin von Sandberger (1826 to 1898) was a German palaeontologist and geologist, born at Dillenburg in Nassau. He studied at Bonn, Heidelberg, Giessen and Marburg, graduating Ph.D. at Giessen in 1846. In 1849 he became curator of the Natural History Museum at Wiesbaden and began to study the Tertiary strata of the Mayence Basin and the Devonian fossils of the Rhenish provinces. In 1855 he was appointed professor of mineralogy and geology at the Polytechnic Institute at Karlsruhe, where he took part in the geological survey of Baden, and from 1863 to 1896 he held the same professorship at the University of Würzburg. His major works include Die Land- und Süsswasser-Conchylien der Vorwelt of 1870 to 1875 and a two-volume study of mineral veins, Untersuchungen über Erzgänge. He and his brother Guido Sandberger published a work on the fossils of the Rhenish strata in Nassau.