Ernst Lynx
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
- Member entry of Ernst lynx in the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina
- Luchs, Ernst in the German biography
- Kalliope network : Luchs, Ernst
- Literature by and about Ernst Luchs in the bibliographic database WorldCat
Individual evidence
- ^ 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 ).
- ^ Biography Ernst Luchs , in: Biographical Dictionary of the Jelenia Góra Region, 2017
- ^ Friedrich Hermann Otto Finsch, p. 122.
- ↑ Bo Beolens, Michael Watkins and Michael Grayson: The Eponym Dictionary of Birds , p. 342 ( partial online view )
- ^ Karl Friedrich Otto Russ, p. 6.
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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 |