Carl Wilhelm Hahn (zoologist)

Carl Wilhelm Hahn (born December 16, 1786 in Weingartsgreuth , Upper Franconia, † October 7, 1835 in Nuremberg ) was a German arachnologist , entomologist and zoologist ( ornithologist ).

Life

Hahn was the son of a gardener who was later employed by Count Friedrich von Pückler in Fürth . He attended grammar school in Erlangen and did military service until 1808. He studied camera science in Erlangen and then worked in the local tax administration in places in the Main and Legau districts. In 1819 he received his doctorate in Erlangen and then called himself natural scientist and private scholar. In 1818 he began publishing the first batch of his book on exotic birds. In 1819 he moved from Fürth to Nuremberg, where he saw better publication opportunities. In 1820 he married the widow of a doctor who already had three children and with whom he had another daughter. In 1821 he moved to Munich because of a book project about the exotic birds in the private zoo of the Bavarian King Maximilian I Joseph , but nothing came of it. In 1825 he left Munich again for unknown reasons and moved to Nuremberg. There is only scant news of him there and he died in 1835 of a lung disease.

His monograph on the spiders was originally supposed to appear in 12 deliveries per year (with only 100 copies each), but there were only 8 deliveries in total from 1820 to 1836, and of those published from 1831 onwards, which his publisher published with other (not named) naturalists Hahn distanced himself. He made the drawings himself (4 color plates per delivery, a total of 81 spiders are shown on 32 color plates).

Since he was dissatisfied with his first project and its publisher, he published the series Die Arachniden (16 volumes in 94 deliveries up to 1848, with more than 500 colored plates and a total of ), which was continued after his death by Carl Ludwig Koch (1778-1857) from 1831 2089 pages). In it are many first descriptions (as well as in the monograph of the spiders ).

His collection of spiders is said to have come to Munich, but there is no evidence in the Zoological State Collection .

Fonts

Birds from Asia, Africa, America and New Holland, in pictures after nature with descriptions. 19 deliveries, Lechner, Nuremberg 1818 to 1836 (published from the 18th delivery by Heinrich Carl Küster , who also published another edition with a revised text in 1850)

Monograph of the Spiders. 8 deliveries, JJ Lechner, Nuremberg 1820 to 1836 (digitized version of the Heidelberg University Library: urn : nbn: de: bsz: 16-diglit-15146 , reprint in the Central Antiquariat of the GDR 1988)

The arachnids. Zeh (from volume 13 Lotzbeck), Nuremberg 1831 to 1848 (the first two volumes 1831 and 1834 by Hahn, then by Koch)

True-to-life illustrations of the natural history of animals in Bavaria for general use . Self-published, Nuremberg 1826 to 1828 (126 pages and 100 colored plates, edited sheet by sheet, 100 copies)

with Jakob Ernst von Reider: Fauna Boica, or non-profit natural history of the animals of Bavaria. 29 deliveries, Zeh, Nuremberg, 1830 to 1835 ( digitized version )

Ornithological atlas or lifelike illustration and description of non-European birds . 17 deliveries, Zeh, Nuremberg, 1834 to 1841 (continued by Heinrich Carl Küster, digital copies of the University and State Library of Saxony-Anhalt (ULB): urn : nbn: de: gbv: 3: 3-61210 )

Icones ad Monographiam Cimicum, or illustrations for the monograph of bug-like insects 1 delivery (24 colored plates), Lechner, Nuremberg 1826. (Digitized: urn : nbn: de: hbz: 5: 1-222401 )

Thorough instruction on how to collect, prepare, store and ship crustaceans, olives, woodlice, arachnids and insects of all classes. After more than twenty years of experience and personal practice for collectors and enthusiasts, edited Zeh, Nuremberg 1834; 4th edition: Lotzbeck, Nuremberg 1854 ( digitized version ).

Icones Orthopterorum, images of the skin-winged insects Lechner, Nuremberg 1835 (only one delivery, 1 sheet of text, 4 colored plates)

He also provided pictures for Johann Wolf: pictures and descriptions of strange natural history objects. 2 volumes, Tyroff, Nuremberg 1816 to 1822, 2nd edition 1827.

literature

Peter Sacher: Carl Wilhelm Hahn (1786–1835) and his arachnological works . In: Entomological News and Reports. Volume 32, 1988, No. 4, pp. 141-147

Web links

Wikisource: Carl Wilhelm Hahn - Sources and full texts

Individual evidence

^ Whereby a letter from 1807 to his regimental commander has been received, in which Count Pückler advocates for him. He had been transferred to the military for various pranks, and Pückler attests to him being very careless, but also polite and able to draw, to know about natural history and botany and to stuff birds
↑ However, after the death of Maximilian I in 1825, a change of the throne took place; his menagerie was dissolved in 1826
↑ For the date of death, Sacher quotes Gebhardt: Die Ornithologen Mitteleuropas. Giessen 1964.

personal data
SURNAME	Hahn, Carl Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German arachnologist, entomologist, zoologist and ornithologist
DATE OF BIRTH	December 16, 1786
PLACE OF BIRTH	Weingartsgreuth
DATE OF DEATH	October 7, 1835
Place of death	Nuremberg

[1] Whereby a letter from 1807 to his regimental commander has been received, in which Count Pückler advocates for him. He had been transferred to the military for various pranks, and Pückler attests to him being very careless, but also polite and able to draw, to know about natural history and botany and to stuff birds

[2] However, after the death of Maximilian I in 1825, a change of the throne took place; his menagerie was dissolved in 1826

[3] For the date of death, Sacher quotes Gebhardt: Die Ornithologen Mitteleuropas. Giessen 1964.