Eduard Demel

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Eduard Demel, CDV from Joh.Steffen , Hamburg, undated (approx. 1879)

Carl Friedrich Eduard Demel (* 1822 in Hamburg ; † September 3, 1900 ibid) was a German entomologist , explorer and natural food dealer.

Life

Eduard Demel undertook three research trips from 1852 to 1860 and 1866 to 1867, two of them to Australia and one to the Fiji Islands . In Australia, his whereabouts were Sydney (1852-1858), Western Australia (1859), Port Curtis (1860), Port Denison and Rockhampton (February to May 1866) and Cap York (May to December 1866). After his return, Dämel traded in kind in Hamburg and worked as an assistant at the Godeffroy Museum .

In 1871, Demel went back to Australia as an explorer for the Godeffroy Museum to collect artifacts. He arrived in Sydney in November. Other stops on this trip were from March 1872 Rockhampton, from July 1872 Peak Downs, from May 1873 Rockhampton, from December 1873 Gayndah and from May 1874 to February 1875 again Sydney. Damel sent collected copies to the Godeffroy Museum in Hamburg. Among other things, around 40,000 stuck insects arrived. Demel returned from Australia in May 1875. He ran his natural produce store again, first on Annenstrasse and later on Bernhardstrasse . The last curator of the Museum Godeffroy CA Pöhl was listed in the address books at the same address .

Damel traded in specimens collected by the Swiss entomologist Jacob Boll . Boll had emigrated to the USA and worked as a collector in Texas .

The exhibits collected by Demel can be found in various scientific collections, for example at the Humboldt University in Berlin and Harvard University .

Animal and plant names

Jalmenus daemeli

In order to honor his services to science, animals and plants were named after Demel. Below is an example of a selection:

  • Snake Hemiaspis damelii or Hoplocephalus damelii
  • Butterfly Daemel's Blue Jalmenus daemeli
  • Beetle Nyctozoilus daemeli
  • Mollusc Planorbis daemeli
  • Ant Polyrhachis daemeli
  • Australian forest frog Rana daemeli
  • Fish Serranus daemeli
  • Toechima daemelianum plant
  • Spider Xysticus daemeli

literature

  • JDE Schmeltz: International Archive for Ethnography . tape XIII . Bookstore and printer formerly EJ Brill, Leiden 1900, p. 216 ( online - Necrolog).
  • The researchers of the Godeffroy Museum - Biographies, VI. Eduard Demel in: Treatises of the Natural Science Association in Hamburg. Birgit Scheps: The sold museum. The South Sea companies of the trading house Joh. Ces. Godeffroy & Sohn, Hamburg, and the collections “Museum Godeffroy” , Goecke & Evers, Keltern, Weiler, 2005, ISBN 3-937783-11-3 , pp. 131-134, ( table of contents PDF).

Web links

  • Eckhard K. Groll: CF Eduard Demel. In: Biographies of Entomologists of the World. Senckenberg German Entomological Institute, 2013, accessed on August 21, 2014 .
  • Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria: Demel, CF Eduard (c. 1821-1900). In: Biographical Notes. Australian National Herbarium, accessed August 21, 2014 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Death register StA Hamburg 2, No. 1472/1900
  2. ^ A b Georg Semper: Contribution to the Rhopaloceren fauna of Australia . In: Journal of the Museum Godeffroy . Booklet XIV. L. Friederichsen & Co., Hamburg 1879, p. 138 ( biodiversitylibrary.org ).
  3. ↑ Hamburg address book for 1870 . Hermann's Erben , Hamburg, p. 72 ( uni-hamburg.de ).  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / agora.sub.uni-hamburg.de  
  4. ^ JDE Schmeltz: Small messages from the Museum Godeffroy: III. Programs from E. Demel . In: Journal of the Museum Godeffroy . Booklet VIII. L. Friederichsen & Co., Hamburg 1875, p. 137 ( biodiversitylibrary.org ).
  5. ^ News about the museum's travelers . In: Journal of the Museum Godeffroy . Book XII. L. Friederichsen & Co., Hamburg 1876, p. 176 ( biodiversitylibrary.org ).
  6. ↑ Hamburg address book for 1877 . Hermann's Erben, Hamburg, p. 88 ( uni-hamburg.de ).
  7. ^ Hamburg address book for 1879 . Hermann's Erben, Hamburg, p. 67 ( uni-hamburg.de ). It seems to be a son, however, as the initials are no longer “CFE”, but only “E.”.
  8. ^ Hamburg address book for 1879 . Hermann's Erben, Hamburg, p. 285 ( uni-hamburg.de ).
  9. ^ Eckhard K. Groll: Jacob Boll. In: Biographies of Entomologists of the World. Senckenberg German Entomological Institute, 2013, accessed on August 21, 2014 .
  10. ↑ Sea cucumber, moist preparation. In: Scientific collections at the Humboldt University in Berlin. Retrieved August 21, 2014 .
  11. ^ Index of Botanical Specimens. 00078715. In: Harvard University Herbaria & Libraries. Retrieved August 21, 2014 .
  12. ^ Index of Botanical Specimens. 00014084. In: Harvard University Herbaria & Libraries. Retrieved August 21, 2014 .
  13. ^ Albert Günther: Descriptions of new species of Reptiles from Australia, collected by Hr. Damel for the Godeffroy Museum . In: Journal of the Museum Godeffroy . Book XII. L. Friederichsen & Co., Hamburg 1876, p. 46 ( biodiversitylibrary.org ).
  14. ^ G. Haag-Rutenberg: New heteromers from the Museum Godeffroy . In: Journal of the Museum Godeffroy . Booklet XIV. L. Friederichsen & Co., Hamburg 1879, p. 117 ( biodiversitylibrary.org ).
personal data
SURNAME Demel, Eduard
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Demel, Carl Friedrich Eduard (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German entomologist, explorer and natural produce dealer
DATE OF BIRTH 1822
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH 3rd September 1900
Place of death Hamburg