Carl Jonas Pfeiffer
Carl Jonas Pfeiffer , also Karl, (born February 7, 1779 in Kassel ; † 1836 ) was a German malacologist and banker in Kassel.
Life
His father was the consistorial councilor and professor of theology in Marburg Johann Jakob Pfeiffer . He went to school in Marburg until the age of 14 and then became a commercial apprentice in Kassel and Frankfurt am Main. In 1800 he briefly studied in Marburg (philosophy, logic, history, commercial science, modern languages). In 1803 he founded the tobacco factory Gebr. Pfeiffer with his younger brother in Hanau . In 1818, when Hanau was separated from the rest of Hesse, they moved the company headquarters to Kassel and began to be active in the banking business there (change).
From 1816 he began to collect conchylia in the area around Hanau and later in Hessen, where he was advised by the malacologist Gottfried Gärtner . From 1821 to 1829 he published the natural history of German land and freshwater mollusks in three parts.
In 1808 he married the professor's daughter Marie Louise Theodore Merrem, with whom he had three children. His son Louis Pfeiffer was the actual founder of the L. Pfeiffer banking house .
literature
- Autobiography , in: Karl Wilhelm Justi, basis for a Hessian scholar, writer and artist story from 1806 to 1831 , Marburg 1831, pp. 486–488 ( digitized version )
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Pfeiffer, Carl Jonas |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Pfeiffer, Karl Jonas |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German banker and malacologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 7, 1779 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | kassel |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1836 |