He was a son of jurist
Francis Lieber. He was educated at the universities of
Berlin and
Göttingen, and the
Freiberg School of Mines. He was state geologist of
Mississippi from 1850 to 1851, engaged in the geological survey of
Alabama from 1854 to 1855, and from 1856 until 1860 held the office of
mineralogical, geological, and
agricultural surveyor of
South Carolina. His first annual report of the last-mentioned survey was published in 1857, and the fourth and last in 1860. In 1860, he accompanied the American
astronomical expedition to
Labrador as geologist. At the beginning of the
Civil War, he joined the
Confederate army, and died of wounds that he received in the
Battle of Williamsburg. ==Works==