Carl Zimmer (zoologist)

Carl Wilhelm Erich Zimmer (born September 29, 1873 in Sondershausen ; † November 8, 1950 in Hüll near Wolnzach ) was a German zoologist and specialist in crustaceans .

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Carl Wilhelm Erich Zimmer grew up in Sigmaringen and graduated from high school in Berlin and Breslau . He then studied natural sciences from 1893 to 1898 in Strasbourg , Munich and Breslau and received his doctorate in 1897. During his time in Munich he joined the Munichia Munich gymnastics association and the Alsatia Strasbourg gymnastics association in Strasbourg . From 1901 he worked as a curator and completed his habilitation in zoology in 1904.

From 1912 Zimmer worked as an honorary professor for zoology at the University of Munich and initially became second director and from 1917 director of the Munich State Zoological Collection . From 1923 to 1937 he was a full professor for systematic zoology and director of the Zoological Museum at the University of Berlin . In 1932 he was President of the German Zoological Society and in 1933 became its first deputy. Zimmer was a sponsor of the German-American evolutionary biologist Ernst Mayr , who did his doctorate with him.

Zimmer's main research focus was the crustaceans , with particular interest in the crustacean order Cumacea .

Dedication names

The Cumaceans Diastylis zimmeri (Ledoyer 1977), Iphinoe zimmeri (Stebbing 1910), Leptostylis zimmeri (Fage 1929) and Nannastacus zimmeri (Calman 1911) were named in his honor. Even Ernst Ahl named u. a. various frogs named Arthroleptis zimmeri (1925), Philautus zimmeri (1927) and Oreophryne zimmeri (1933) in honor of Zimmer. Auguste Forel dedicated the Technomyrmex zimmeri ant species to him in 1911 . Even Robert McLachlan named 1876 Pseudopsilopteryx zimmeri a kind of caddisflies . In 1951 Walter Medley Tattersall described a hover shrimp under the name Anchialina zimmeri . Karl Wilhelm Verhoeff (1867–1945) imaginary room with two land isopods , which have the scientific names Formosillo zimmeri (1928) and Buddelundiella zimmeri (1930). In 1908 the limestone coral Mopsella zimmeri was first mentioned by Willy Kükenthal . Among the copepods one finds the taxon Paralaophonte zimmeri (1929), which comes from Carl van Douwe . Finally, Naoyoshi Ii named a hover shrimp as Hypererythrops zimmeri (1937).

Works

• Cumacea . Academic Publishing Company, Leipzig 1941

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literature

• Jan-Peter Frahm, Jens Eggers: Lexicon of German-speaking bryologists . Books on Demand, Norderstedt 2001, ISBN 3-8311-0986-9 .

Individual evidence

1. ^ ^{A b} Max Mechow, Well-known CCer, Historia Academica, Volume 8/9, pp. 305-306
2. ^ Biographical Etymology of Marine Organism Names. X – Ø ( Memento of the original from April 5, 2006 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 

Web links

• Literature by and about Carl Zimmer in the catalog of the German National Library