Arnold Pagenstecher
Arnold Andreas Friedrich Pagenstecher (born December 25, 1837 in Dillenburg , † June 11, 1913 in Wiesbaden ) was a German doctor and entomologist .
Life
Pagenstecher was born as the son of the court judge Ernst Alexander Pagenstecher and his wife Johanna Scherbius from Frankfurt . After graduating from the Humanistic Gymnasium in Wiesbaden, he studied medicine from 1855 at the universities of Würzburg , Berlin and Utrecht . In 1861 he returned to Wiesbaden and began to practice at his cousin's Alexander Pagenstecher's ophthalmological institution . In 1863 he established himself as a general practitioner and specialist in otology and married a von Rössler. In 1876 he was appointed to the Medical Council and in 1896 to the Secret Medical Council.
Voluntary work
From 1868 to 1880 Pagenstecher was a member of the municipal council of Wiesbaden, from 1891 city councilor and from 1902 city councilor head of Wiesbaden. Because of his commitment to the welfare of the city, Pagenstecher was made an honorary citizen in 1907 .
In addition to his professional activity, Pagenstecher was employed by the Prussian State Ministry from 1882 to 1900 as secretary of the Nassau Association for Natural History and inspector of the Natural History Museum . After the city took over the three Wiesbaden museums, he was appointed director of the Natural History Museum in 1900. Such an activity was voluntary and Pagenstecher had to continue to take care of his practice.
Because of the acute lack of space for the scientific collections, he and Remigius Heinrich Fresenius (1847–1920) campaigned for the new building of the museum on today's Friedrich-Ebert-Allee. Since the city of Wiesbaden held out the prospect of a new building, negotiations with representatives from Berlin began in 1896. With the curator Eduard Lampe (1871-1919), Pagenstecher was able to significantly influence the design of the exhibition and work rooms, which are still sufficient today and which were planned by Theodor Fischer from 1911. But Pagenstecher did not live to see the start of construction in 1913. In 1908 the association recognized his services by being awarded honorary membership.
In addition, he was active in numerous non-profit associations, for example as chairman of the Wiesbadener aid association of the Viktoriastifts Kreuznach, as deputy chairman of the Wiesbadener association of the Red Cross and as a board member of the deaconess mother house Paulinenstift.
Scientific work
The main scientific work of Pagenstechers can be divided into two areas:
- Medical-anatomical research, whereby writings on ophthalmology and ear medicine predominate. Pagenstecher has also dealt intensively with the benefits of bathing culture .
- Entomological studies, especially on butterflies (Lepidoptera), with the knightly butterflies ( Papilionidae) of the Indomalayic archipelago occupying the greatest extent. By working on material from numerous regions, he acquired extensive knowledge in the field of biogeography . He was able to publish the central work of his studies in 1909 under the title The geographical distribution of butterflies in Jena .
Altogether more than 90 scientific papers originate from his hand. He himself described more than 250 species of butterflies for the first time.
In the Wiesbaden Museum he built a main collection for the butterfly collection. He was able to achieve the takeover of numerous private collections, such as the collections of MJ Bastelberger, August Fuchs and Adolf Rössler. With over 600,000 copies and hundreds of types , it is still an important collection in Europe today. His own share is not limited to the knight butterflies, even if Pagenstecher has set up a world collection of the Parnassiinae.
Works
- Pedigree of the Pagenstecher family. C. Ritter, Wiesbaden 1895 digitized
Honors
- 1907 honorary citizen of Wiesbaden
- 1908 honorary member of the Nassau Association for Natural History
literature
- Ludwig Dreyer: Nekrolog. Arnold Pagenstecher. Yearbooks of the Nassau Association for Natural History 66: I-XVI; Wiesbaden, 1913 [with list of publications]
- Otto Renkhoff : Nassau biography. Short biographies from 13 centuries. Wiesbaden, 1992
Web links
- Literature by and about Arnold Pagenstecher in the catalog of the German National Library
- His collection in Wiesbaden
- Pagenstecher, Arnold Andreas Friedrich. Hessian biography. (As of December 20, 2019). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Pagenstecher, Arnold |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Pagenstecher, Arnold Andreas Friedrich (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German doctor and entomologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 25, 1837 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Dillenburg |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 11, 1913 |
| Place of death | Wiesbaden |