Christian Ludwig Nitzsch

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Christian Ludwig Nitzsch

Christian Ludwig Nitzsch (born September 3, 1782 in Beucha ; † August 16, 1837 in Halle (Saale) ) was a German biologist .

Life

Christian Ludwig Nitzsch was born in Beucha as the son of the former pastor of the Wittenberg town church , general superintendent and first director of the royal evangelical seminary Karl Ludwig and Luise Nitzsch (née Wernsdorf). After attending school in Borna and Zeitz , on July 1, 1791, at the special request of his great-grandfather Gottlieb Wernsdorf the Elder , he began to study at the University of Wittenberg , where he passed his exam on December 21, 1804 and became a candidate for medicine.

He completed his habilitation and received his doctorate in medicine on January 4, 1808 . He then took over the extraordinary chair for botany and natural history and, as Karl Heinrich Dzondi's successor, was in charge of prosectorate at the anatomical theater in 1810 . He established his scientific reputation at that time with his doctoral thesis "De respiratione animalium", an important contribution to the comparative anatomy of the respiratory organs. In botany, Nitzsch owed valuable suggestions to the university mechanic Christian Schkuhr and has been collecting mallophages since 1813 .

On October 5, 1815, Nitzsch was appointed to the University of Halle as the first full professor of zoology . There he became director of the zoological museum, which had been in disrepair before his takeover, and ensured its continued existence. He restored and prepared numerous exhibits himself and obtained an increase in staff. In 1834, under his ordinariate, the collections were moved to the newly built main building of the university. With his systematic order of the mallophages, which he put down in five manuscript volumes, he is considered the founder of mallophage research. It also deals with other ectoparasites that he found while searching for mallophages. The zoology owes important information to his work "About the knowledge of forms, anatomy and development history of parasites", "About the anatomy of birds" and "The construction of the infusoria". Nitzsch, who as an excellent zoologist also dealt with the anatomy of birds, developed dissection techniques and also knew how to inspire in his lectures. He died of a stroke in 1837.

In 1818 he was elected a member of the Leopoldina .

Works

  • De respiratione animalium , 1808
  • "The families of the animal insects" in Germar's Magazine for Entomology, Volume 3 1818
  • "On the history of animal insect science" in the journal for collected natural sciences 5 volume 1855
  • "Characteristics of the featherlings" in the magazine for collected natural sciences Volume 9 1857
  • "Contributions to infusoristics" in New Writings of the Natural Research Society in Halle Volume 3 Issue 1 1817
  • "Anatomie der Vögel" in Meckel's German Archive for Physiology Volume 1 1815 Volume 2 1816, Volume 3 1817 Volume 6 1820 and Volume 11 1826
  • Osteographic Contributions to the Natural History of Birds , 1811
  • System of pterylography , in Burmeister 1840 doi: 10.5962 / bhl.title.64330
  • Observationes de Avium arteria carotide communi , (Halle) 1829
  • "Characteristics of the featherlings" in the magazine for collected natural sciences Volume 9 1857
  • Pterlyographiae Avium pars prior , (Halle) 1833 - Traduit en anglais sous le titre de Nitzsch's Pterylography à la Ray Society en 1867.
  • "On the history of animal insect science" in the journal for collected natural sciences 5 volume 1855
  • "Contributions to infusoristics" in New Writings of the Natural Research Society in Halle Volume 3 Issue 1 1817
  • "Anatomie der Vögel" in Meckel's German Archive for Physiology Volume 1 1815 Volume 2 1816, Volume 3 1817 Volume 6 1820 and Volume 11 1826
  • "Osteographic Contributions to the Natural History of Birds" 1811
  • with C. gable: Insecta epizoa. The insects parasitizing on mammals and birds . O. Wigand, Leipzig 1874. doi: 10.5962 / bhl.title.66072

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SURNAME Nitzsch, Christian Ludwig
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German biologist
DATE OF BIRTH September 3, 1782
PLACE OF BIRTH Beucha
DATE OF DEATH August 16, 1837
Place of death Halle (Saale)