David Geyer
David Geyer (born November 6, 1855 in Koengen , † April 6, 1932 in Stuttgart ) was a German malacologist and paleontologist .
Geyer was the son of a farmer and was a primary school teacher in Neckartailfingen , Backnang and most recently in Stuttgart. There he began to deal with molluscology and was supported by Eduard von Martens and David Friedrich Weinland .
He examined particularly recent and Quaternary freshwater snails in southwest Germany and published an identification book on the German mollusc fauna. He first described the Swabian grass snail, among other things . Several mollusks are named in his honor, such as the four-toothed diaper snail ( Vertigo geyeri ), Bythiospeum geyeri and the dwarf heather snail ( Xerocrassa geyeri ).
In 1915 he became an honorary member of the Association for Patriotic Natural History in Württemberg . In 1920 he received an honorary doctorate from the University of Tübingen .
Fonts
- Our land and freshwater mollusks. Introduction to the mollusc fauna of Germany. Along with an appendix on collecting mollusks, Stuttgart 1896, 2nd edition 1909, 3rd edition 1927 Archives
- The molluscs of Germany, Stuttgart 1909, Archives
- The mollusks of Swabian loess in the past and present, annual reports Association for Fatherland Natural History Württemberg, Volume 73, 1917, pp. 23–92 BHL
literature
- Adolf Zilch : Geyer, David. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 6, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1964, ISBN 3-428-00187-7 , p. 356 ( digitized version ).
- H. Wägele, Obituary, in: Archiv für Molluskenkunde, Volume 65, 1933, pp. 70–84
- Wilhelm Wenz , obituary in: Palaeontologische Zeitschrift, Volume 15, 1933, pp. 196-200
- David Geyer, autobiography in Archiv f. Molluskenkunde, Volume 57, 1925, pp. 162-170
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Geyer, David |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German zoologist and paleontologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 6, 1855 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Kings |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 6, 1932 |
| Place of death | Stuttgart |