August von Herder
August von Herder (18 August 1776 - 29 January 1838) was a German geologist and mineralogist. From 1813 he served in a succession of increasingly senior posts in the Saxon government mines service, ending up in 1826 as government mining director ("Berghauptmann"). He was an energetic and highly effective moderniser of the Saxon mining industry.[1][2][3]
August von Herder
Mining Engineer
Director of Mines for Saxony
Susanne Sophie Beyer (1781–1848)
born Hähnel: she was a widow in 1805 when she married von Herder.
Johann Gottfried Herder (1744–1803)
Maria Karoline Flachsland (1750–1809)
Family[edit]
August von Herder married Susanne Sophie Berger at Schneeberg on 17 June 1805. The bride, born Susanne Sophie Hähnel, was the widow of a protestant church minister. The geologist-politician Eugen Wolfgang von Herder (1810–1853) was the couple's only child, as far as is known.[12]