Friedrich Albrecht Anton Meyer

Friedrich Albrecht Anton Meyer , also Friedrich Albrecht Anton Meier , (born June 29, 1768 in Hamburg , † November 29, 1795 in Göttingen ) was a German physician , writer and zoologist .

Life

Meyer first studied law and then medicine in Göttingen, where he received his master's degree in philosophy in 1790 and received his doctorate in medicine in 1790 (De cortice angusturae). He then gave lectures on medicine and zoology in Göttingen and in 1792 became curator at the University's Zoological Museum. He was also a private lecturer at the university and one of the founders of the “Societas physica privata Gottingensis” and its archivist in Göttingen. Although he died when he was only 27, he published many zoological treatises.

Meyer published a classification of reptiles in 1795 and he published in journals on entomology , zoology, and mineralogy .

He first described the Port Jackson bullhead shark .

In addition to zoological works, he also published dramas and novels. Friedrich Ludwig Wilhelm Meyer was his older brother.

Honors

The plant genus Meyeria DC. from the sunflower family (Asteraceae) is named after Carl Anton von Meyer , Johann Carl Friedrich Meyer , Friedrich Albrecht Anton Meyer, Georg Friedrich Wilhelm Meyer and Ernst Heinrich Friedrich Meyer .

Fonts

• Dramas, short novels and prosaic rhapsodies: a contribution to the entertainment for the reading world. Dyk, Leipzig 1790.
• About some spiders in the Göttingen region. Dieterich, Göttingen 1790.
• Tentamen monographiae generis Meloes. Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, 1793.
• About introspection in the study of natural history. Dieterich, Göttingen 1794.
• Synopsis reptilium, novam ipsorum sistens generum methodum, nec non Gottingensium huius ordinis animalium enumerationem. Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, Göttingen 1795 (45 pages; Biodiversity Heritage Library ).
• Attempt of a complete natural history of domestic animals in outline. Dieterich, Göttingen 1792.
• Experiment on the four-footed mammal Re'em of the Holy Scriptures: A Contribution to the Natural History of the Unicorn. Dyk, Leipzig 1796.
• Non-profit natural history of poisonous insects. Rottmann, Berlin 1792.

He also published translations, including:

• Henry Smeathman / Heinrich Smeathmann: missions about the termites. Goettingen 1789.
• Philibert Chabert : Treatises of worm diseases with notes and additions. Goettingen 1789.
• Alexander Monro I .: Attempting a treatise on comparative anatomy. Goettingen 1790.
• Gilbert White : White's Contributions to the Natural History of England. Rottmann, Berlin 1792.
• Systematic-summary overview of the newest zoological discoveries in New Holland and Africa together with two other zoological treatises. Dyk, Leipzig 1793 ( Biodiversity Heritage Library ; description of the animals in Australia (New Holland) by the governor Arthur Phillip and the doctor John White, and by James Bruce (1730–1794) on Africa).

He also published the new editions of natural history for children of the Göttingen teacher Georg Christian Raff after his death (9th edition, Enßlin, Stuttgart 1820). and a new edition by Carl Peter Thunberg Characteres generum insectorum, variis cum adnotationibus (Göttingen 1791).

Meyer was editor of zoological journals: the magazine for animal history (2 volumes Göttingen 1790, 1794), the zoological annals , Weimar 1794 (for 1793) and the zoological archive (Leipzig 1795).

literature

• Wilhelm Hess :  Meier, Friedrich Albrecht Anton . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 21, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1885, p. 192.

Web links

Wikisource: Friedrich Albrecht Anton Meyer  - Sources and full texts

• German digital library, with online editions of his works

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Lotte Burkhardt: Directory of eponymous plant names - Extended Edition. Part I and II. Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin , Freie Universität Berlin , Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-946292-26-5 doi: 10.3372 / epolist2018 .
2. ^ Biodiversity Heritage Library
3. ^ Biodiversity Heritage Library