page_title: Goldkronach
section_title: Personalities who lived and worked in Goldkronach
hierarchical_section_title: Goldkronach / Personalities who lived and worked in Goldkronach
context_page_description: Goldkronach is a town in the district of Bayreuth, in Bavaria, Germany. It is situated near the Fichtelgebirge, 12 km northeast of Bayreuth.
context_section_description: Georgius Agricola (1494-1555), scholar of the Renaissance and the father of the mineralogy. For Goldkronach in his writings, Agricola called a weekly gold transfer of 1500 Gulden.
  Alexander von Humboldt (1769-1859), German natural scientist, from 1792 to 1796 Oberbergmeister and Oberbergrat in the Prussian Goldkronach. Humboldt revolutionized mining from a technical point of view, but also introduced measures for the education and social protection of miners.
caption: Alexander von Humboldt in 1843
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