translate English to German: His benevolence was throughout his life active and disinterested. His early zeal for the improvement of the condition of the miners in Galicia and Franconia, his consistent detestation of slavery, his earnest patronage of rising men of science, bear witness to the large humanity which formed the ground-work of his character.
Sein Beitrag zur Geologie sind überwiegend seine aufmerksamen Beobachtungen von Vulkanen in der Neuen Welt.