Object Status:
Unlocated
Accession Date:
March 12, 1810
Primary Source Reference:
Peale Museum Accessions Book, Historical Society of Pennsylvania, p. 49
Notes:
G. H. E. Muhlenberg (1750-1801) was born in Pennsylvania but was sent to Halle, Germany for his education. He followed his father, the eminent theologian Henry Melchior Muhlenberg, into the Lutheran ministry. In 1774 he was elected the third pastor of the United Congregations and he returned to Philadelphia. In 1813 he published his botanical study, the Catalogus Plantarum Americae Septentrionalis; or a Catalogue of the Hitherto Known Native and Naturalized Plants of North America and he also contributed to the work of many other American botanists. He moved to Lancaster to become the first president of Franklin College (later Franklin and Marshall), where he remained.
