Joseph Peter Audebert

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Joseph Peter Audebert, 1883

Joseph Peter Audebert (pronounced "ohd'bähr") (born March 3, 1848 in Dillingen , Saarland ; † February 14, 1933 in Groß-Rohrheim ) was a German naturalist and ethnologist.

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Audebert was born as the first of eight children to the main proxy at Dillinger Hütte, Nikolaus Joseph Audebert and Julia Brass, who cared for the working class families at the hut. After attending primary school and high school in Dillingen, he was accepted as a one-year volunteer in a Siegburg Uhlan Regiment (presumably Rhenish Regiment No. 7 ). During his military service he took part in the Franco-German War . After the end of the war he became estate manager at the Orb'schen vineyard in Westhofen . On behalf of the Leiden professor Hermann Schlegel , Audebert took part in a Madagascar expedition after six months of training. After a 90-day trip, he began the five-year undertaking in the fall of 1875. On his own initiative he stayed for another two years. During his stay, he explored the then little explored east coast and the Hova . The animal species he discovered include the thick-billed cuckoo ( Pachycoccyx audeberti ( Schlegel , 1879)) and the Malagasy white-bellied island rat ( Nesomys audeberti ( Jentink , 1879)).

After his return to Germany he published on the geography and population of Madagascar and went on lecture tours. From 1892 he was a game warden in Groß-Rohrheim and died there. He was briefly married and had no children.

Honors

  • Audebertstrasse in Groß-Rohrheim bears his name
  • According to the decision of the Dillingen city council, a square in Dillingen was named after Audebert

literature

  • Armin Jost: Joseph Peter Audebert, the forgotten Madagascar explorer . Ed .: Geschichtswerkstatt Dillingen / Saar eV 2012, ISBN 978-3-00-038186-7 .
  • Hermann Schlegel: On a new species of Cuckoo from Madagascar . In: Notes from the Leyden Museum . tape 1 , 1879, p. 99-100 ( online [accessed August 3, 2015]).
  • Fredericus Anna Jentink: On a new genus and species of Mus from Madagascar . In: Notes from the Leyden Museum . tape 1 , 1879, p. 107-109 ( online [accessed August 3, 2015]).

Web links

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Armin Jost: Joseph Peter Audebert, The forgotten Madagascar researcher . Ed .: Geschichtswerkstatt Dillingen / Saar eV 2012, ISBN 978-3-00-038186-7 , p. 11 .
  2. ↑ Hermann Schlegel, p. 100.
  3. ↑ Fredericus Anna Jentink, p. 107.
  4. ^ Saarbrücker Zeitung of April 10, 2013
personal data
SURNAME Audebert, Joseph Peter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German naturalist
DATE OF BIRTH March 3, 1848
PLACE OF BIRTH Dillingen
DATE OF DEATH February 14, 1933
Place of death Gross-Rohrheim