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Franz Anton Quantity (born February 15, 1808 in Arnsberg , † January 27, 1880 in Danzig ) was a German high school teacher, naturalist and arachnologist and bryologist.
Franz Anton Menge was born on February 15, 1808 in Arnsberg in Westphalia, where he also attended grammar school. From May 1828 to April 1832 he studied natural sciences at the University of Bonn with Karl Dietrich von Münchow , Ludolph Christian Treviranus , August Goldfuß , Johann Jacob Nöggerath and Karl Gustav Bischof and acquired knowledge in physics, mineralogy, botany and zoology as well as chemistry.
After half a probationary year in 1832 at the grammar school in Bonn and a three-year position as a teacher in the high school in Graudenz from Easter 1833, he was appointed to the Petri School in Danzig on June 22, 1836. Here he also became a member of the "Danzig Natural Research Society" and was its secretary for many years. Further memberships are:
- 1841 external member of the "Societas Physico-medica zu Bonn"
- 1855 corresponding member of the " Imperial Royal Geological Institute of Vienna "
- 1857 corresponding member of the " Silesian Society for Patriotic Culture "
- 1860 external member of the "East Prussian Physical-Economic Society of Königsberg"
- 1870 foreign member of the "Natural Scientists Association of Riga".
In addition to zoological treatises, his writings also include botanical ones: "On visible life movements of plants", geological: "Geognostic remarks about the Danzig area" and paleontological investigations about inclusions in amber: "About life signs of prehistoric animals enclosed in amber" (1856), He also provided the Brothers Grimm with material for the first volumes of the German dictionary .
Anton Quantity worked as a teacher in Danzig for almost 42 years and received the title of professor on August 11, 1868. When he left the Petri School in 1877, he was awarded the Order of the Red Eagle in recognition of his services to school and science .
He bequeathed his extensive collection of amber inclusions to the West Prussian Provincial Museum in Danzig, which was founded in 1880 .
Anton Menge's botanical author abbreviation is quantity .
Works
- Catalogus plantarum phanerogamicarum regionis Grudentinensis et Gedanensis . Typis CG Böthe, Grudentiae 1839
- About the way of life of the arachnids . Danzig 1843
- Geognostic remarks on the Danzig area . Gdansk 1850
- Myriapods around Gdansk . Danzig 1851
- Signs of life of pre-worldly animals enclosed in amber . AW Kafemann, Danzig 1856
- About a rhipidopteron and some other animals trapped in amber . Danzig 1866
- About a scorpion and two spiders in the amber . Danzig 1866
- Prussian spiders . I.-XI. (560 pages, 91 plates) Writings of the Natural Research Society in Danzig. Danzig 1866-1878
- With Heinrich Göppert : The flora of amber and its relationship to the flora of the tertiary formation and the present . First volume, Danzig 1883, second volume, Danzig 1886, continued and completed by Hugo Conwentz doi: 10.5962 / bhl.title.29891
literature
- B. Ohlert: Necrology of Professor Anton Quantity. In: Writings of the Natural Research Society in Danzig. Danzig 1880; Pp. XXXX-XXXXVIII. biodiversitylibrary.org
Web links
- Literature by and about Anton Quantity in the catalog of the German National Library
- Personnel sheet from Anton Quantity in the personnel file of the BIL expert body in the archive database of the Library for Research on Educational History (BBF)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Crowd, Anton |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Crowd, Franz Anton |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German high school teacher and arachnologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 15, 1808 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Arnsberg |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 27, 1880 |
| Place of death | Danzig |