Carl Ferdinand Peters

Carl Ferdinand Peters (13 August 1825 – 7 November 1881) was an Austrian medical doctor and geologist. He became a professor of mineralogy at the University of Graz. He described and named the minerals Szaibélyite (after Stephen Sjájbely, 1777–1855) and Biharit.

As a person trained in geology and medicine he also worked for the municipality of Graz on matters of sanitation and drainage. In 1870 he was elected to the provincial parliament where he worked for the construction of a new mental asylum at Feldhof along with Josef Czermak. He was an influential teacher. He also worked on public education and pedagogy and had an interest in the training of teachers at grammar and secondary schools for whom he wrote a guide. After the death of his wife, he married her younger sister Leopoldine von Blumfeld (1839–1892) in 1865. From his first marriage he had five children and from the second he had two but only one, Guido Peters (1866–1937), survived and became a noted pianist.