Erich Zugmayer

Erich Zugmayer

Erich Johann Georg Zugmayer (born May 16, 1879 in Vienna ; † February 12, 1938 there ) was an Austrian zoologist and explorer.

biography

He was born the son of the factory owner and palaeontologist Heinrich Zugmayer and Emilie Hoffmann.

Originally intended to join his father's company, he completed six classes at an eight-grade humanistic state high school and then a three-year course at the Vienna Commercial Academy . After a year of commercial internship in London , he studied zoology, geology and geography at the University of Heidelberg .

Zugmayer undertook a series of research trips: 1899 Norway , Lapland , 1902 Iceland , 1905 Caucasus , 1906 Turkestan , northwest Tibet and Kashmir , 1911–1916 Baluchistan . Since 1908 he was adjunct professor and department head at the Zoological State Collection in Munich .

Erich Zugmayer is the first to describe the scaly dragon fish Bathophilus vaillanti (ZUGMAYER 1911), Leptostomias gladiator (ZUGMAYER 1911) and Photonectes braueri (ZUGMAYER 1913).

Bathophilus vaillanti (ZUGMAYER 1911)

Zugmayer died in Vienna on the night of February 12th to 13th, 1938.

Fonts

• A trip through Iceland in 1902 . Vienna: Verlag von Adolph v. AW Künast, 1903
• Via sensory organs on the tentacles of the genus Cardium. Inaug. Dissertation . Leipzig: W. Engelmann, 1904
• Via sensory organs on the tentacles of the genus Cardium . Journal for Scientific Zoology 76 (3), pp. 478-508, 1904
• A trip through the Middle East in 1904 . Vienna: Verlag Dietrich Reimer, 1905
• Contributions to the herpetology of Near East Asia . Zoological Yearbooks 26, pp. 449-486, 1906
• A trip through Central Asia in 1906 . Berlin: Verlag Dietrich Reimer, 1908
• Report on a trip to Western Tibet . Geographische Mitteilungen 7, pp. 145–151, 1909
• Contributions to the herpetology of Central Asia . Zoological Yearbooks 27, pp. 481–508, 1909
• Contributions to the ichthyology of Central Asia . Zoological Yearbooks 29 (3/4), pp. 275–298, 1910
• The Afghan rail project . Deutsche Rundschau für Geographie 33 (3), pp. 118–123, 1910/1911
• Poissons provenant des campagnes du yacht "PRINCESSE-ALICE" (1901–1910) . Résultats des campagnes scientifiques accomplies sur son yacht par Albert Ier, prince souverain de Monaco 35, 1911
• Diagnoses de poissons nouveaux provenant des campagnes du yacht "Princesse-Alice" (1901 à 1910) . Bulletin de L'Institut océanographique de Monaco 193, pp. 1-14, 1911
• About my trip in Balujistan . Communications of the Geographical Society in Munich 7 (1), pp. 302–303, 1912
• Eight new fishes from Baluchistan . Annals and Magazine of Natural History Series 8, 10 (60), pp. 595-599, 1912 doi : 10.1080 / 00222931208693276
• On a new genus of Cyprinoid fishes from high Asia . Annals and Magazine of Natural History Series 8, 9 (54), p. 682, 1912 doi : 10.1080 / 00222931208693184
• Diagnosis of the Stomiatides nouveaux provenant des campagnes du yacht "Hirondelle II" (1911 et 1912) (avec un tableau de determination) . Bulletin de l'Institut océanographique de Monaco 253, 1913
• Le crâne de Gastrostomus bairdi Gill et Ryder Bulletin de l'Institut océanographique de Monaco 254, 1913
• Scientific results of Dr. Erich Zugmayer in Balutschistan 1911. The fish of Baluchistan. With introductory remarks on the country's fauna . Treatises of the Royal Bavarian Academy of Sciences (mathematical-physical class) 26 (6), pp. 1–35, 1913
• Baluchistan (preliminary results of a trip in 1911) . Communications of the Geographical Society in Munich 8 (1), pp. 40–48, 1913
• Diagnoses de quelques poissons nouveaux provenant des campagnes du vacht Hirondelle II (1911–1913) . Bulletin de l'Institut océanographique de Monaco 288, 1914
• " Greater Siberia ". " Mongolia or High Asia ". In: Ewald Banse (Hrsg.): Illustrierte Länderkunde . Braunschweig: Westermann, 1914 pp. 87–120
• Germany in the Caucasus . Between the Caucasus and Sinai: Yearbook of the League of Asian Fighters 2, pp. 23–47, 1921

literature

• Hugo Hassinger . Professor Dr. Erich Zugmayer †. Communications of the Austrian Geographical Society, Vol. 81, pp. 140–141, 1939.
• Prof. Dr. Erich Zugmayer. Neues Wiener Tagblatt (daily edition), February 19, 1938.
• Josef Mliner. Who was Erich Zugmayer? Waldegger Chronik 99, 1, pp. 9-10, 2006 (PDF; 2.12 MB)

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