Eugen Wilhelm Pfizenmayer

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Eugen Pfizenmayer (left) with the Berjosowka mammoth at the place of discovery, 1901

Eugen Wilhelm Pfizenmayer ( Russian Ойген (Евгений) Вильгельм Васильевич Пфиценмайер ; born August 27, 1869 in Bebenhausen ; † December 20, 1941 in Ulm ) was a Württemberg - Russian palaeontologist and zoologist .

Life

Pfizenmayer worked in the St. Petersburg Zoological Museum from 1897 . In 1901 he took Russian citizenship. In 1901 he was a taxidermist on the expedition of the Academy of Sciences led by Otto Herz (1856–1905) , which examined the woolly mammoth carcass found on the Berjosowka in 1900 . Pfizenmayer dismantled the carcass and arranged for it to be transported first to Irkutsk and then by train to Saint Petersburg . On the way he collected Siberian mammals for the St. Petersburg Zoological Museum. He also described the Yakut Laika . The Berjosowka mammoth has been shown as a dermoplastic in the St. Petersburg Zoological Museum since 1903 .

In 1908 Pfizenmayer became head of the Zoological Museum in Tbilisi . That year he traveled to the Sanga-Jurach River in Yakutia , where he recovered another mammoth carcass. The find was less complete, but on its head was the well-preserved trunk that was missing from the Berjosowka mammoth. Both finds together gave for the first time an accurate picture of the appearance of the woolly mammoth.

During the First World War he was arrested in 1916 and charged with espionage . In 1917 he was expelled so that he had to return to Germany . He found a job at the Württemberg Natural History Collection, today's State Museum of Natural History in Stuttgart .

Pfizenmayer described his observations and experiences in Siberia and the Caucasus in several books. In 1926 he published his central work Mammutleichen und Urwaldmenschen in northeast Siberia . The Russian translation appeared in 1928. This was followed by translations into English , Japanese and Hungarian . In 1929 he published depictions of hunting and popular life in the Caucasus . He also described the Caucasus scientist . The Yakut moose has the scientific name Alces alces pfizenmayeri .

Works

  • Cavicorn hybrids in Transcaucasia . In: Meeting reports of the Society of Friends of Natural Sciences in Berlin . 1920, p. 154–167 ( PDF on ZOBODAT ).
  • Mammoth corpses and jungle people in northeast Siberia . FA Brockhaus , Leipzig 1926.
  • Hunting and folk pictures from the Caucasus . A. Bonz & Comp., Stuttgart 1928.
  • Biological and morphological notes on the Caucasian wisent . In: Treatises of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences - Mathematical and natural science class . Suppl. 1929, p. 495–504 ( PDF on ZOBODAT ).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ St. Petersburg Zoological Museum: БЕРЕЗОВСКИЙ МАМОНТ (accessed April 27, 2019).
  2. ↑ Otto Krösche: The mammoth. Game of the Ice Age people . Lux reading sheet No. 308, Verlag Sebastian Lux, Murnau 1959.
  3. ↑ Hans-Jörg Wilke: Search for the past. The mammoth in the eyes of animal painters . In: naturmagazin . 4/2018.
  4. ↑ Juliane Weiß: Lend me your ear! - A well-traveled mammoth ear makes a stop in Halle . Find of the month July 2017 at the State Museum for Prehistory Halle / Saale, accessed on April 29, 2019.
  5. ^ EW Pfizenmayer: Kelet-Szibíria ősvilága és ősnépei: Tudományos utazás a mammuttetemek és az erdőlakó népek tanul.mányozása végett . Lampel, Budapest .
personal data
SURNAME Pfizenmayer, Eugen Wilhelm
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Пфиценмайер, Ойген Вильгельм Васильевич (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Württemberg-Russian paleontologist and zoologist
DATE OF BIRTH August 27, 1869
PLACE OF BIRTH Bebenhausen
DATE OF DEATH December 20, 1941
Place of death Ulm