Ernst Albert Fritze
Ernst Albert Fritze (born July 22, 1791 in Herborn , † May 13, 1839 in Jakarta ) was a German doctor and zoologist.
Life
Ernst Albert Fritze studied medicine in Göttingen from 1812. In 1817 he entered the Dutch service and worked as a naval doctor in Batavia . From 1825 he sent numerous specimens, animal carcasses for preparation and ethnographics from the region of Southeast Asia and Australia to the Natural History Collection in the Wiesbaden Museum . His collection has become very important because Java is one of the most densely populated islands today and numerous species are already threatened with extinction or have already suffered this fate ( Java tigers ).
The mammals in today's collection include the Java tiger , Java leopard , Java rhinoceros , Java banteng , Java red dog , hair -nosed viper and silver crested langur . In addition, Fritze handed over more than 120 bird species from Java to the Wiesbaden Museum. In 1839 he was elected a member of the Leopoldina .
From 1837 he promoted the scientific studies of Franz Wilhelm Junghuhn .
Fonts
- Renkhoff, O. (1992): Nassau Biography . - Wiesbaden.
- Thomä, C. (1842): History of the natural history association in the Duchy of Nassau and the natural history museum in Wiesbaden . - Yearbooks of the Nassau Association for Natural History , special volume, 196 pages; Wiesbaden. [contains a biography of EA Fritze]
Web links
- Nassau Association for Natural History
- Java Tiger from the collection of EA Fritze ( Memento from October 6, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Fritze, Ernst Albert |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Fritze, Ernst |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German doctor and zoologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 22, 1791 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Herborn |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 13, 1839 |
| Place of death | Jakarta |