Alfred Voeltzkow
Alfred Voeltzkow (born April 14, 1860 in Berlin , † February 1947 in Kyritz ) was a German zoologist, botanist and explorer. Its official botanical author's abbreviation is “ Voeltzk. "
Voeltzkow studied natural sciences in Heidelberg, Berlin, Freiburg and Würzburg and received his doctorate in Freiburg in 1887 on Aspidogaster conchicola (a sucking worm parasite in freshwater mussels). During his studies in 1879 he became a member of the Allemannia Heidelberg fraternity . He worked in Strasbourg, where he was a private lecturer.
On expeditions in East Africa, islands in the western Indian Ocean such as the Comoros (1906), Zanzibar (1889) and Madagascar (1890 to 1895 and 1903 to 1905), he collected insects, birds, reptiles, mammals and plants in particular. He published among other things on herpetology and entomology.
Various animal species were named after him, such as the flying fox Pteropus voeltzkowi (Matschie 1909) from the island of Pemba and Cataulacus voeltzkowi and several species of birds.
In 1900 he was elected to the Leopoldina . In 1897 he became a corresponding member of the Senckenberg Natural Research Society , which also partially financed his travels. Parts of his collections are in Vienna and at the Senckenberg Society. He was a member of the Berlin Freemason Lodge on Secrecy .
Fonts
- Scientific results of the travels in Madagascar and East Africa in the years 1889–1895, 3 volumes, Frankfurt: Diesterweg 1899–1905
- Traveled to East Africa in the years 1903–1905. Scientific results , Schweizerbarth 1914 to 1923 (several volumes, including on the Comoros 1914 and Witu Islands and Zanzibar Archipelago 1923)
- Report on a trip to East Africa to study the formation and structure of the reefs and islands of the western Indian Ocean, in: Zeitschrift der Gesellschaft für Erdkunde , 1903, pp. 560–591, 274–301, 1904, p. 426– 451
Web links
- Biography at Zurich Herbaria
- Voeltzkow, Alfred. Tropicos.org. Missouri Botanical Garden (with a described moss name). Retrieved May 8, 2016
Individual evidence
- ↑ Willy Nolte (Ed.): Burschenschafter Stammrolle. List of the members of the German Burschenschaft according to the status of the summer semester 1934. Berlin 1934. S. 515.
- ↑ Index Collectorum Herbarii Senckenbergiani 2013
- ↑ Beolens, Watkins, Grayson, Eponym Dictionary of Mammals, 2009
- ^ Member entry by Alfred Voeltzkow at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on May 9, 2016.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Voeltzkow, Alfred |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German zoologist, botanist and explorer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 14, 1860 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Berlin |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 1947 |
| Place of death | Kyritz |