Coenraad Jacob Temminck

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Coenraad Jacob Temminck

Coenraad Jacob Temminck (born March 31, 1778 in Amsterdam , † January 30, 1858 in Lisse ) was a Dutch zoologist specializing in ornithology .

Live and act

Temminck was the first director of the Rijksmuseum van Natuurlijke Historie (Reich Museum for Natural History, now naturalis ) in Leiden from 1820 until his death . His work Manuel d'ornithologie ou Tableau systematique des oiseaux qui se trouvent en Europe (1815–40) was the standard work on European birds for decades . In particular, he studied the pigeons .

He had inherited the large collection of specimens of birds from his father Jacob Temminck (1748-1822), who was treasurer of the Dutch East India Company . In addition to birds, he also dealt with mammals and is considered the first to describe many species , including the Iberian lynx ( Lynx pardinus ) and the African wild dog ( Lycaon pictus ).

Darwin versus Temminck

In 1868 the British naturalist Charles Darwin incorrectly denied the existence of a tailless mutant of the Ceylon chicken that Temminck had described in 1807.

Honors

In 1818 he was accepted into the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina . On December 22, 1837 he became a foreign member of the Natural Science Department of the Russian Academy of Sciences . When La Société Cuvierienne was founded in 1838 , he was one of the 140 founding members of the society. In 1852 he was accepted as a corresponding member of the Académie des sciences . Since 1855 he was an honorary member of the Prussian Academy of Sciences .

Selection of animal species named after Temminck

Writings and works

  • Las Posesiones holandesas en el Archipiélago de la India. Manila 1855.
  • Esquisses zoologiques on the côte de Guiné ... le partie, les mammifères. Brill, Leiden 1853.
  • Coup-d'oeil général sur les possessions néerlandaises dans l'Inde archipélagique. Arnz, Leiden 1846-49.
  • Nouveau recueil de planches coloriées d'oiseaux. Levrault, Paris 1838.
  • Monographies de mammalogie. Dufour & d'Ocagne, Paris, Leiden 1827–41.
  • Atlas des oiseaux d'Europe, pour servir de complément au Manuel d'ornithologie de M. Temminck. Belin, Paris 1826-42.
  • Nouveau recueil de planches coloriées d'oiseaux, pour servir de suite et de complément aux planches enluminées de Buffon. Dufour & d'Ocagne, Paris 1821.
  • Observations on the classification méthodique des oiseaux et remarques sur l'analyse d'une nouvelle ornithologie élémentaire. Dufour, Amsterdam, Paris 1817.
  • Manuel d'ornithologie ou Tableau systématique des oiseaux qui se trouvent en Europe. Sepps & Dufour, Amsterdam, Paris 1815–40.
  • Histoire naturelle générale des pigeons et des gallinacés. Sepps, Amsterdam 1808-15.
  • Catalog systématique du cabinet d'ornithologie et de la collection de quadrumanes, avec une courte description des oiseaux non-décrits. Sepps, Amsterdam 1807.

literature

  • Alexis JP Raat: Alexander von Humboldt and Coenraad Jacob Temminck. in vol. 21 Zoological Bijdragen. Brill, Leiden 1976.
  • M. Eulàlia Gassó Miracle: The Significance of Temminck's Work on Biogeography: Early Nineteenth Century Natural History in Leiden, The Netherlands. In vol. 41 Journal of the History of Biology , 2008, 677-716.
  • Société Cuvierienne: List of the Premiers Fondateurs de La Société Cuvierienne, Association universelle pour l'avancement de la Zoologie, de L'Anatomie comparée et de la Palaeontologie . In: Revue Zoologique par La Société Cuvierienne . tape 1 , 1838, p. 189-192 ( biodiversitylibrary.org ).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Grouw, Hein van, Dekkers, Wim & Rookmaaker, Kees (2017). On Temminck's tailless Ceylon Junglefowl, and how Darwin denied their existence. Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club (London) , 137 (4), 261-271. [1]
  2. ↑ Member entry of Cænraad Jacobus Temminck at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on November 12, 2015.
  3. ^ Société Cuvierienne, p. 191.
  4. ^ List of former members since 1666: Letter T. Académie des sciences, accessed on March 7, 2020 (French).
personal data
SURNAME Temminck, Coenraad Jacob
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Dutch zoologist specializing in ornithology
DATE OF BIRTH March 31, 1778
PLACE OF BIRTH Amsterdam
DATE OF DEATH January 30, 1858
Place of death Lisse