Eberhard Stechow

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Eberhard Stechow (born March 21, 1883 in Berlin ; † August 11, 1959 in Planegg ) was a German zoologist and specialist in the group of Hydrozoa , especially their now obsolete order Hydroidea. This corresponds most closely to the subclass Hydroidolina used today .

Life

Stechow grew up in Zitzschewig , today part of the Saxon town of Radebeul , in the Hohenhaus manor house , which his father Walther Stechow had acquired in 1885. He received his doctorate in 1908 under Richard von Hertwig in Munich with the dissertation "Contributions to the knowledge of Branchiocerianthus imperator Alm." (A Japanese hydrozoan). To gain knowledge of this hitherto largely unexplored order, Stechow published over 40 scientific papers and described numerous new genera and species. So he created the first comprehensive identification tables of this order and placed particular emphasis on the phylogenetic relationships of the species within this taxon.

From 1905 to 1923 Stechow's workplace was the Munich State Zoological Collection , where he was employed as a voluntary research assistant. At the same place he was employed as an assistant until 1927, from then on as a conservator and from 1937 as a department head. After the death of his father, general physician Dr. Walter Stechow, in 1927 Eberhard Stechow inherited the Hohenhaus in Radebeul.

His own research trips took him to the Mediterranean countries , the West Indies and California . From the zoological material he had brought with him, Stechow built a hydrozoan collection in Munich, which he supplemented by exchanging it with other specialist colleagues. Today this collection houses over 1000 objects preserved in ethanol as well as several thousand microscopic specimens, among which there are numerous types and paratypes.

In addition to hydrozoology, Stechow's main area of ​​work, he dealt with the oldest cultural history. He was the editor of a three-part "Natural and Cultural History of Lithuania". In the last decade of his life he was primarily concerned with research in historical geography.

In recognition of his scientific merits, Eberhard Stechow became a member of the Leopoldina - the German academy of natural scientists in Halle a. S. - and the Academy of Charitable Sciences in Erfurt.

From his marriage to Elsa, b. Oswald (1881–1937), his three children Egmund, Jan and Erdmuthe come from. On the occasion of the death of Stechow in 1959, his only surviving son Egmund inherited the Hohenhaus.

Fonts

Technical

  • Hydroid polyps of the east coast of Japan. Part I: Athecata and Plumularidae. (= Contributions to the natural history of East Asia; treatises of the Royal Bavarian Academy of Sciences, supplement volume to the treatises of the mathematical-natural science class, suppl. I, dep. 6). Beck, Munich 1909, OCLC 191974218 .
  • Hydroid polyps of the east coast of Japan. Part II: Campanularidae, Halecidae, Lafoeidae, Campanulinidae and Sertularidae, together with additions to the Athecata and Plumolaridae. (= Contributions to the natural history of East Asia; treatises of the Royal Bavarian Academy of Sciences, supplement volume to the treatises of the mathematical-natural science class, suppl. III, dep. 2). Beck, Munich 1913, OCLC 773508233 .
  • For knowledge of the hydroid fauna of the Mediterranean, America and other areas. Part II. In: Zoological Yearbooks. Systematics. 47 (1), Fischer, Jena 1923, pp. 29-270.
  • Hydroids of the German Deep Sea Expedition. Scientific results of the German deep-sea expedition on the steamer “Valdivia” 1898–1899. Volume 27, Fischer, Jena 1925, pp. 383-546.
  • About skeletal hydrozoans. In: Zoologischer Anzeiger. 169 (9-10), Fischer, Stuttgart 1962, pp. 416-428.

Local history

literature

  • Frank Andert (Red.): Radebeul City Lexicon . Historical manual for the Loessnitz . Published by the Radebeul City Archives. 2nd, slightly changed edition. City archive, Radebeul 2006, ISBN 3-938460-05-9 .
  • W. Engelhardt: Eberhard Stechow. In: Negotiations of the German Zoological Society. 24 Suppl, 1960, pp. 532-533.

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personal data
SURNAME Stechow, Eberhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German zoologist and conservator
DATE OF BIRTH March 21, 1883
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH August 11, 1959
Place of death Planegg