Carl Chop

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Carl Chop , also Karl Chop , (* March 2, 1825 in Sondershausen ; † December 31, 1882 ibid) was a writer and paleontologist in the Principality of Schwarzburg-Sondershausen .

Life

He was a son of Friedrich Chop , the chief of the March government of Schwarzburg-Sondershausen; he studied law in Leipzig from 1845 to 1848. After that he was a lawyer and notary in Sondershausen, where he collected fossils and published them. He conducted literary-historical and philosophical studies, wrote novels and published in the garden gazebo and in Thuringia's house friend .

Together with Thilo Irmisch and others, Chop founded a natural science association in January 1863 , in which special houses interested in science met weekly to freely exchange ideas. In the same year (1863) he was appointed a full member of the Princely Antiquities Association in Sondershausen.

From October 1860 there were meteorological stations in the principality. Chop was in charge of the Sonderhäuser station until the end of his life.

Heinrich von Eck named the starfish Pleuraster chopi (1872) from the Lower Muschelkalk of Sondershausen in his honor .

Works (selection)

Scientific work

  • About Trigonia cardissoides and Nucula Goldfussi in the special houses Muschelkalk. In: Journal for the total natural sciences. Volume 7, 1856, pp. 392-395. BHL .
  • New communications about teeth and fish remains from the Thuringian Keuper. In: Journal for the total natural sciences. Volume 9, 1857, pp. 127-132 BHL , panel IV BHL .
  • Notifications about the special houses Muschelkalk. In: Journal for the total natural sciences. Volume 16, 1860, pp. 48-52. BHL .

Entertaining writings

  • Poetry and crime. A gloss in prose, 1854.
  • My cousin the count. A town and court history, 1876.
  • Professor Schmidtchen's adventure.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. His first description of Nothosaurus picardi (1857) based on tooth remnants is considered by Rieppel and Wild (1996) as a noun dubium .
  2. An obituary for a friend: Archivist Professor Dr. Thilo Irmisch. In: Contributions to the Schwarzburgische Heimatskunde. Volume 2, pp. 409-413. (Reprint from the government and news bulletin for the Principality of Schwarzburg-Sondershausen. No. 84 of July 15, 1879, pp. 335f.)
  3. ^ See Natural Science Association in Sondershausen. In: Contributions to the Schwarzburgische Heimatskunde. Volume 2, pp. 146f. (Reprint from government and news bulletin for the Principality of Schwarzburg-Sondershausen. No. 46 of April 15, 1884, p. 183.)
  4. Der Deutsche 1860 No. 120 , p. 998.