Eduard Friedrich Eversmann
Eduard Friedrich von Eversmann (* 23. January 1794 in Wehringhausen ; † April 14 . Jul / 26. April 1860 greg. In Kazan ) was a German biologist and explorer. His abbreviation for botanists and mycologists is “ Eversm. ". In zoology it is usually “ Ev. “Abbreviated. In Russian he is known as Эдуард Александрович Эверсман or Эдуард Фридрих Эверсманн . He was a son of Friedrich August Alexander Eversmann .
Life
Eversmann studied at the Philipps-Universität Marburg , the Friedrichs-Universität Halle , the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität zu Berlin and the Universität Dorpat . In 1810 he joined the Lower Rhine in Heidelberg . In 1814 he received a doctorate in philosophy and a master's degree in liberal science in Halle, and in 1816 in Dorpat a doctorate in medicine and obstetrics. In late 1816 he lived in Slatoust , where he studied the Tatar and Persian languages and the religion of Islam . Disguised as a Tatar merchant, he traveled with Georg von Meyendorff and Christian Heinrich Pander from Orenburg to Bukhara in 1820 ; but he had to give up his intention to penetrate into India. On this trip he collected plants and minerals that he sent to the University of Berlin. In 1825 he went on a military expedition to Khiva . In 1824 he was elected to the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina . He was a member of the Society of German Natural Scientists and Doctors . In 1828 Eversmann became a full professor of zoology and botany at the University of Kazan . Kazan has since become his second home and in the service of the university he undertook research trips to the Orenburg governorate , the Saratov governorate , to Astrakhan and the Caucasus as well as four trips abroad.
In his more than 30 years of scientific activity, he wrote a large number of scientific papers. He is considered the pioneer of faunistic research in the southeastern steppes of Russia between the Volga and Urals. His collection is now in the St. Petersburg Zoological Museum .
Fonts (selection)
- Communications on some new and some less known Russian mammals , in Bull. Soc. Imp. Nat. Mosc. , 1840, B. XII, Moscow, digitized
- with H. Lichtenstein: Journey from Orenburg to Bukhara. In addition to a dictionary of the Afghan language. Berlin 1823 (with a city map of Bukhara drawn up by Eversmann).
literature
- Association affairs , (deceased), in: Entomologische Zeitung , Volume 21, Stettin 1860, page 239, digitized
- Notes , Eduard Friedrich Eversmann (deceased), in: Petermanns Geographische Mittheilungen , Volume 8, 1862, pages 30-31, digitized
- Fariba Vakshouri: Eduard Eversmann, a naturalist from Wehringhausen and his journey from the Ural Mountains to Bukhara on the Silk Road . In: Fabian Fechner u. a. (Ed.): Colonial pasts of the city of Hagen , Hagen 2019, ISBN 978-3-00-063343-0 , pp. 70–71.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Kösener corps lists 1910, 119 , 176
- ↑ Members of the Society of German Natural Scientists and Doctors 1857
- ↑ correct name: August Petermann (ed.): Communications from Justus Perthes' Geographical Institute on important new Researches in Gesammtgebiete the Geographi e
Web links
- Author entry and list of the described plant names for Eduard Friedrich Eversmann at the IPNI
- Article Eduard Friedrich Eversmann in the Great Soviet Encyclopedia (BSE) , 3rd edition 1969–1978 (Russian)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Eversmann, Eduard Friedrich |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Эверсман, Эдуард Александрович (Russian spelling); Eversmann, Eduard Friedrich von |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German biologist and researcher, professor in Russia |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 23, 1794 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Wehringhausen , Westphalia |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 26, 1860 |
| Place of death | Kazan |