Bernhard Weißenborn (zoologist)

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Bernhard Weißenborn (born September 30, 1858 in Mühlhausen / Thuringia , † February 21, 1889 in Duala ) was a German zoologist .

Life

Weißenborn attended the secondary school in his hometown Mühlhausen until Easter 1875 and then completed a commercial apprenticeship. At the Realgymnasium in Eisenach , he made up his school leaving examination in order to start studying natural sciences, especially zoology, at the University of Jena . In the autumn of 1885 he went on a study trip to Norway . After receiving his doctorate in 1886, he worked temporarily as an assistant at the University of Jena. In 1887 he was assigned to Richard Kund and Hans Tappenbeck's expedition to set up a research station in the Kamerunggebiet . He died in Cameroon in February 1889 of complications from dysentery .

Publications

  • Contributions to the phylogeny of the arachnids . Dissertation Jena 1886.

literature

  • Obituary . In: Messages from explorers and scholars from the German protected areas 2 (1889), p. 31f .
  • Florian Hoffmann: Occupation and military administration in Cameroon. Establishment and institutionalization of the colonial monopoly of violence 1891–1914 . Part 1. Göttingen 2007, p. 56.
personal data
SURNAME Weißenborn, Bernhard
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Weissenborn, Bernhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German zoologist
DATE OF BIRTH September 30, 1858
PLACE OF BIRTH Mühlhausen / Thuringia
DATE OF DEATH February 21, 1889
Place of death Duala , Cameroon