Education
University of Halle-Wittenberg.
Botanist entomologist university professor
University of Halle-Wittenberg.
As well as being a mineralogist he was interested in entomology and particularly in the Coleoptera and Hemiptera. He monographed the heteropteran family Scutelleridae.
German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina. Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences]
In 1845, he was elected a foreign member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.