August Nicolaus Herrmannsen

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August Nicolaus Herrmannsen (born March 24, 1807 in Flensburg , † September 19, 1854 in Kiel ) was a German doctor and malacologist .

He was the son of the Flensburg teacher Nicolai Herrmannsen (1773-1848). After attending the Flensburg School of Academics, he studied medicine and natural sciences in Kiel with his doctorate in 1831 (Guilielmi Harveii systema generationis). Afterwards he was a doctor in Flensburg, but also dealt with mineralogy and malacology . In 1848 he became a private lecturer in Kiel and assistant at the local zoological museum.

From 1846 to 1849 he published the Indicis generum malacozoorum primordia in two volumes with Supplementa and Corrigenda (in Kassel with Theodor Fischer). For each malacological taxon, it recorded the relevant literature from the first publication.

literature

  • Eduard Alberti: Lexicon of Schleswig-Holstein-Lauenburg and Eutinian writers from 1829 to mid-1866, 1st section (A – L), Kiel: Akademische Buchhandlung 1867, p. 359
  • Announcements of the association north of the Elbe for the dissemination of scientific knowledge, issue 1, 1857, p. IV
  • T. Iredale, AFB Hull, A monograph of the Australian loricates, IX, Australian Zoologist 4 (6), 1927, 348 (bibliography, biographies)

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Biographical data according to Alberti, see literature
personal data
SURNAME Herrmannsen, August Nicolaus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German doctor and malacologist
DATE OF BIRTH March 24, 1807
PLACE OF BIRTH Flensburg
DATE OF DEATH September 19, 1854
Place of death Kiel