Ernst Lynx

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Carl Johann Nepomuk Ernst Luchs (born September 3, 1811 in Warmbrunn , Province of Silesia , † January 3, 1886 ibid) was a German medic and ornithologist .

Life

Ernst Luchs studied medicine at the University of Breslau , submitted his dissertation De sphygmologia on November 17, 1836 and subsequently worked as a spa doctor in Warmbrunn until the end of his life .

He put on an extensive ornithological collection, which he sold in 1878 to Ludwig Graf von Schaffgotsch (1842-1891), a member of the Schaffgotsch family . The explorer Otto Finsch named the lynx parakeet ( Myiopsitta luchsi ( Finsch , 1868)) in his honor . The lynx 'Astrild Aegintha luchsi Russ , 1882 is probably a hybrid of Estrilda cinerea or Estrilda troglodytes X Estrilda melpoda .

Ernst Luchs was born on October 15, 1843 under matriculation no. Elected member of the Leopoldina in 1519 with the academic surname Stoll . In 1870 he was accepted as a member of the German Ornithological Society .

Letters from his correspondence to the physician and later President of the Leopoldina Carl Gustav Carus and to the Berlin entomologist Gustav Kraatz have survived.

Fonts

  • De sphygmologia . Vratislaviae 1836

literature

  • Friedrich Hermann Otto Finsch: The parrots edited monograph . EJ Brill, Leiden 1968 ( biodiversitylibrary.org ).
  • Johann Daniel Ferdinand Neigebaur : History of the imperial Leopoldino-Carolinische German academy of natural scientists during the second century of its existence. Friedrich Frommann, Jena 1860, p. 270 ( archive.org ).
  • Karl Pretzsch : Directory of the Breslau university publications 1811–1885. With an attachment containing the extraordinary and honorary doctorates as well as the renewals . Korn, Breslau 1905, page 70 ( digitized version )
  • Karl Friedrich Otto Russ: Lynx's Astrild . In: The Feathered World . tape 11 , no. 1 , 1882, p. 6 ( biodiversitylibrary.org ).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Willi Ule : History of the Imperial Leopoldine-Carolinian German Academy of Natural Scientists during the years 1852–1887 . With a look back at the earlier times of its existence. In commission at Wilh. Engelmann in Leipzig, Halle 1889, supplements and additions to Neigebaur's history, p. 182 ( archive.org ).
  2. ^ Biography Ernst Luchs , in: Biographical Dictionary of the Jelenia Góra Region, 2017
  3. ^ Friedrich Hermann Otto Finsch, p. 122.
  4. ↑ Bo Beolens, Michael Watkins and Michael Grayson: The Eponym Dictionary of Birds , p. 342 ( partial online view )
  5. ^ Karl Friedrich Otto Russ, p. 6.
personal data
SURNAME Lynx, Ernst
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Luchs, Carl Johann Nepomuk Ernst (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German medic and ornithologist
DATE OF BIRTH September 3, 1811
PLACE OF BIRTH Warmbrunn , Province of Silesia
DATE OF DEATH January 3, 1886
Place of death Warmbrunn