David Friedrich Weinland

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David Friedrich Weinland
David Friedrich Weinland, photograph by Erwin Hanfstaengl , 1880

David Friedrich Weinland (born August 30, 1829 in Grabenstetten , Württemberg , † September 19, 1915 on the Hohen-Wittlingen estate near Urach ) was a German zoologist and writer for young people.

Life

Christoph David Friedrich Weinland, son of Pastor August Weinland, showed great interest in the geological past of his homeland even in his youth . He attended the Evangelical Theological Seminary in Maulbronn from 1843 to 1847 and then studied theology as a scholarship holder of the Tübinger Stift . At the same time he was already attending lectures in the natural sciences and, after graduating in theology, devoted himself entirely to the natural sciences. He completed this course in 1852 with a dissertation on spontaneous generation .

After working as an assistant at the Zoological Museum in Berlin, he went to Harvard University (USA), where he worked under Louis Agassiz at the Museum of Comparative Zoology. During his time in America he traveled to Canada, Mexico and the Caribbean and especially Haiti , where he conducted ethnographic studies and examined coral growth . In 1857 he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences . Back in Germany, Weinland was director of the zoological garden in Frankfurt am Main from 1859 to 1863 . He had to give up this position for health reasons. In 1860 he became a member of the Leopoldina . From 1876 to 1883 he had his residence at Hafenmarkt 9 in Esslingen. He spent the rest of his life as a private scholar on the Hohen-Wittlingen estate near Urach (Württemberg), which together with the village of Wittlingen now belongs to the city of Bad Urach - near what he called the Tulkahöhle , in which his novel Rulaman is set.

Weinland was a member of the Natural Research Society in Emden .

His son was the professor of pharmaceutical chemistry Rudolf Friedrich Weinland (1865-1936).

Services

Weinland found worldwide fame and recognition through his book Rulaman . Originally he wanted to give his sons and their peers knowledge about the life of their ancestors in the Swabian Alb area . This story, first published in 1878 by Otto Spamer Verlag Leipzig and subsequently translated into several languages, is still available in bookshops.

Publications

Youth books
  • Rulaman. Tale from the times of the caveman and the cave bear . 1878
  • Kuning Hartfest. A picture of life from the history of our German ancestors when they still sacrificed Wuodan and Duonar. 1879

literature

  • Andreas W. Daum : Christoph David Friedrich Weinland , in: New German Biography . For the historical commission at the Bavarian Academy of Sciences ed. by Hans-Christof Kraus. Volume 27: Vockerodt - Wettiner. Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2020, pp. 646–648.
  • Andreas W. Daum: Science popularization in the 19th century. Civil culture, scientific education and the German public 1848–1914. 2nd, supplementary edition, Oldenbourg, Munich 2002, ISBN 978-3-486-56551-5 .
  • Goeßler, Peter: Dr. David Friedrich Weinland. In: Württemberg. Monthly in the service of people and homeland, 1929, pp. 469–471.
  • Fritz Berger: David Friedrich Weinland. Biography. Blaubeuren, Mangold 1967. (= Treatises on Karst and Speleology; Series F, History of Speleology, Biographies; H. 1)
  • Klaus Doderer: Lexikon der Kinder- und Jugendliteratur , Vol. 3, Verlag Beltz, Weinheim and Basel 1979, ISBN 3-407-56513-5 , pp. 778-779
  • Frank Brunecker (ed.): Rulaman, the stone age hero. Special exhibition of the Biberacher Braith-Mali-Museum. For the 125th anniversary of “Rulaman”, the Braith Mali Museum in Biberach is presenting a traveling exhibition . Wasmuth, Tübingen u. a. 2003. ISBN 3-8030-1510-3
  • Uwe Albrecht: Believing in God, not knowing him: David Friedrich Weinland (1829–1915). in other words: Kingdom of Heaven on earth. Evangelical pastors as natural researchers and discoverers , Stuttgart 2007, pp. 157–167.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The estate belonged to the village of Wittlingen , which has been part of the city of Urach since 1971 - Bad Urach since 1983.
  2. ^ Member entry of David Christoph Friedrich Weinland at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on October 19, 2015.
  3. ↑ Andrea Steudle et al.: Monument topography Federal Republic of Germany. Cultural monuments in Baden-Württemberg. Volume 1.2.1. City of Esslingen am Neckar , Ostfildern 2009, ISBN 978-3-7995-0834-6 , p. 124.
personal data
SURNAME Weinland, David Friedrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German zoologist and author of books for young people
DATE OF BIRTH August 30, 1829
PLACE OF BIRTH Grabenstetten
DATE OF DEATH September 19, 1915
Place of death Hohenwittlingen estate near Urach