Charles Konig (1774 – September 6, 1851) was a German naturalist.
Born Karl Dietrich Eberhard König, he anglicised his name when he was appointed as assistant to George Shaw at the British Museum in 1806. He was given the task of cataloguing the mineral collection. In 1813 he succeeded Shaw as Keeper of the Department of Natural History. He described many fossils in the British Museum in a classic work entitled Iconesfossilium sectiles (1820-1825). In 1837, following a House of Commons Select Committee report on the British Museum, the Department was divided into three branches, with Konig being put in charge of the Mineralogical and Geological branch. He died in London in 1851.
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Brummitt RK; Powell CE. (1992). Authors of Plant Names. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. ISBN 1-84246-085-4.
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