Alexander von Nordmann

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Alexander von Nordmann

Alexander Davidowitsch von Nordmann (born May 24, 1803 Ruotsinsalmi near Kymi ; † June 25, 1866 in Turku / Åbo) was a Finnish zoologist , botanist and paleontologist . Its official botanical author's abbreviation is “ Nordm. "

Live and act

In 1832, after studying in Åbo (now Turku) (with a doctorate in philosophy) and Berlin (with a doctorate in medicine), he became a teacher of natural history, zoology and botany at the Richelieu Lyceum in Odessa . In 1834 he became a conservator at the Odessa Botanical Garden . Alexander von Nordmann founded a college for horticulture and a department for silkworm breeding . He studied the flora and fauna of southern Russia and the Balkans and is the first to describe numerous species.

One year after the death of his wife Helena from cholera - the marriage had five children - he returned from Odessa to Finland in 1849 and became professor of natural history and later of zoology at the University of Helsinki (Helsingfors in Swedish). He was a member of 29 scientific societies (including the Leopoldina since 1855 ) and author of 58 publications.

Dedication names

The Nordmann fir (Abies nordmanniana) has been named after him since 1842 , and he discovered it in 1835 in the Caucasus northeast of Borjomi in what is now Georgia . Also the plant genus Nordmannia Ledeb. ex north m. from the family of Borage Family (Boraginaceae) it is named in honor.

In 1863 Benedykt Dybowski named a fish Abramis nordmannii in his honor, which as a synonym for today Pickerel ( Vimba vimba ( Linnaeus is considered, 1758)). The Alosa Nordmanni species described by Grigore Antipa in 1904 is also a synonym for Alosa tanaica ( Grimm , 1901). Henri Milne Edwards honored him in 1840 in the copepod species Euryphorus nordmanni , in the sea ​​lice species Lepeophtheirus nordmanni and in 1841 in the Aplousobranchia species Aplidium nordmanni . Gotthelf Fischer von Waldheim honored him in 1842 in the black-winged curlew ( Glareola nordmanni ). The green- tailed gloss star subspecies ( Lamprotornis chalybaeus nordmanni ( Hartert, E & Neumann , 1914)) was named after him. In 1840, Alexander von Keyserling and Johann Heinrich Blasius named Mus nordmanni a synonym for the house mouse ( Mus musculus Linnaeus , 1758) and Sminthus nordmanni a synonym for steppe birch mouse ( Sicista subtilis ( Pallas , 1773)). Tord Tamerlan Teodor Thorell remedied the cross spider species ( Araneus nordmanni ) for him in 1870 . Anders Johan Malmgren described the Phyllodocida species Glycinde nordmanni in 1866 , Heinrich Rathke in 1837 the Asellota species Jaera nordmanni , Sven Ludvig Lovén 1835 Onychopoda species Evadne nordmanni , Oskar Henrik Carlgren 1921 the Actiniidae species Epiactis nordmanni . and Knud Hensch Stephensen in 1931 the Gammaridea species Stenula nordmanni .

Memberships

In 1838 Nordmann was introduced by Félix Édouard Guérin-Méneville as member number 148 of the Société cuviérienne . In 1860 he became a corresponding member of the Académie des sciences .

Publications (selection)

  • Alexander von Nordmann in Adolph Erman : Chapter I. Birds, II. Mammals, III. Amphibians, IV.Fishes in voyage around the earth through North Asia and the two oceans, in the years 1826, 1829 and 1830 . Natural history atlas. G. Reimer, Berlin 1835, p. 1–26 ( books.google.de ).

literature

  • Eckart Roloff : Nordmann - the name fits perfectly. The fir tree, which is named after Alexander von Nordmann, made it the most popular Christmas tree. Today he is almost forgotten. Who was this man In: Landwirtschaftliche Zeitschrift Rheinland , Volume 177, Issue 51 of December 23, 2010, pp. 53–54. ISSN  0724-5580 .
  • Grigore Antipa: The Clupeinen of the western part of the Black Sea and the mouth of the Danube . In: Anzeiger der Kaiserliche Akademie der Wissenschaften, Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Classe . tape 41 , no. 19 , 1904, pp. 299-303 ( biodiversitylibrary.org ).
  • Oskar Henrik Carlgren: Actiniaria I in The Danish Ingolf Expedition . tape 3 , no. 9 . Bianco Luno, Kopenhangen 1921, p. 1-241 ( biodiversitylibrary.org ).
  • Benedykt Tadeusz Dybowski von Nałęcz: Attempt of a monograph of the Cyprinoids of Livonia together with a synoptic listing of the European species of this family . H. Laakmann, Dorpat 1862 ( biodiversitylibrary.org ).
  • Henri Milne Edwards: Histoire naturelle des crustacés, comprenant l'anatomie, la physiologie et la classification de ces animaux . tape 3 . Librairie encyclopédique de Roret, Paris 1840 ( biodiversitylibrary.org ).
  • Henri Milne Edwards: Observation sur les Ascidies composees des cotes de la Manche . In: Mémoires de l'Académie royale des sciences de l'Institut (imperial) de France . tape 18 , 1841, p. 217-326 ( biodiversitylibrary.org ).
  • Gotthelf Fischer von Waldheim: Glareola Nordmannni, fish. (Letter from Mr. von Nordmann to the vice-president of the company) . In: Bulletin de la Société impériale des naturalistes de Moscou . tape 15 , 1842, pp. 314-320 ( biodiversitylibrary.org ).
  • Ernst Hartert, Oscar Neumann: A new star . In: Ornithological monthly reports . tape 22 , no. 1 , 1914, p. 11 ( biodiversitylibrary.org ).
  • Alexander von Keyserling, Johann Heinrich Blasius: The vertebrates of Europe. Friedrich Vieweg and son, Braunschweig 1840 ( biodiversitylibrary.org ).
  • Sven Ludvig Lovén: Evadne Nordmanni, ett hittills okàodt Enlomostracon . In: Kongl. Vetenskapsakademiens handlingarför år 1835 (=  3 ). tape 23 , 1835, pp. 1-29 ( biodiversitylibrary.org ).
  • Johan Malmgren is different: Nordiska Hafs-Annulater . In: Öfversigt af Königlich Vetenskapsakademiens förhandlingar . tape 22 , no. 5 , 1865, p. 355-410 ( biodiversitylibrary.org - 1866).
  • Heinrich Rathke: To the fauna of the Krym . In: Mémoires présentés à l'Académie impériale des Sciences de St. Petersbourg par diverse Savans et dans ses assemblées . tape 3 , 1837, pp. 291-454 ( biodiversitylibrary.org ).
  • Société Cuvierienne: Nouveaux membres admis dans la Société curvienne . In: Revue Zoologique par La Société Cuvierienne . tape 1 , 1838, p. 304 ( biodiversitylibrary.org ).
  • Knud Hensch Stephensen: Crustacea Malacostraca. VII. The order Amphipoda III. part 3. Gammaridea. Fam. Stenothoidae (Boeck) Stebbing. in The Danish Ingolf Expedition . tape 3 , no. 8 . Bianco Luno, Kopenhangen 1931, p. 179-290 ( biodiversitylibrary.org - 1923-1935).
  • Tord Tamerlan Teodor Thorell: Remarks on synonyms of European spiders . CJ Lundström, Upsala ( biodiversitylibrary.org - 1870–1873).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b ALEXANDER DAVIDOVICH VON NORDMANN on Cybertruffle accessed on December 25, 2011
  2. ↑ Lotte Burkhardt: Directory of eponymous plant names - Extended Edition. Part I and II. Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin , Freie Universität Berlin , Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-946292-26-5 doi: 10.3372 / epolist2018 .
  3. ^ Benedykt Tadeusz Dybowski von Nałęcz (1863), p. 179
  4. ↑ Grigore Antipa (1904), p. 301
  5. ^ Henri Milne Edwards (1841), p. 462, plate 39, figure 1
  6. ^ Henri Milne Edwards (1841), p. 455
  7. ^ Henri Milne Edwards (1841), p. 289, plate 5, figure 1
  8. ^ Gotthelf Fischer von Waldheim (1842), p. 314, plate 2
  9. ↑ Ernst Hartert (1914) and a., p. 11
  10. ↑ Alexander von Keyserling (1840) and a., p. IX
  11. ↑ Alexander von Keyserling (1840) and a., S. X
  12. ^ Tord Tamerlan Teodor Thorell (1870), p. 4 & 544
  13. ↑ Anders Johan Malmgren (1866), p. 409
  14. ^ Heinrich Rathke (1837), p. 388, plate 6, Figures 1–5
  15. ↑ Sven Ludvig Lovén (1835), pp. 1–29, plate 2
  16. ^ Oskar Henrik Carlgren (1921), p. 180
  17. ↑ Knud Hensch Stephensen (1931), p. 187, Figure 55
  18. ^ Société cuviérienne, p. 304.
  19. ^ List of members since 1666: letter N. Académie des sciences, accessed on January 28, 2020 (French).
personal data
SURNAME Nordmann, Alexander von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Finnish zoologist, botanist and paleontologist
DATE OF BIRTH May 24, 1803
PLACE OF BIRTH Kymi
DATE OF DEATH June 25, 1866
Place of death Turku