Friedrich Christian Meuschen

Friedrich Christian Meuschen (born September 14, 1719 in Hanau ; † February 20, 1811 in Berlin ) was a German malacologist and diplomat.

Meuschen, the son of the theologian Johann Gerhard Meuschen , was Legation Counselor to the Duke of Hildburghausen and Legation Secretary of Saxe-Coburg in The Hague. He was also a dealer and collector of Conchylia and other natural objects and cataloged important collections, which he published in his Miscellanea Conchyliologica 1766 to 1778 (8 volumes). In 1778 his Museum Grovonianum was published

He was a member of many scientific academies, including the Royal Society , the Leopoldina and the Natural Research Society in Danzig .

The Australian ichthyologist Gilbert Percy Whitley named the fish genus Meuschenia after him in 1929 .

literature

LB Holthuis: FC Meuschen (1719–1811), an eighteenth-century diplomat-naturalist . In: Archives of Natural History , 25, 1998, 75-85.
William Healey Dall : FC Meuschen in the Zoophylacium Gronovianum . In: The Nautilus , 37, 1923/1924, 44-52.
Engel: Dutch Zoological Cabinets , 1986.

Web links

The Mineralogical Record

References and comments

↑ digitized version
^ New collection of experiments and treatises of the Natural Research Society in Danzig, 1. (1778), preface (unpaginated): Continued list of members since 1756.

personal data
SURNAME	Meuschen, Friedrich Christian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German malacologist and diplomat
DATE OF BIRTH	September 14, 1719
PLACE OF BIRTH	Hanau
DATE OF DEATH	February 20, 1811
Place of death	Berlin

[1] tized version

[2] New collection of experiments and treatises of the Natural Research Society in Danzig, 1. (1778), preface (unpaginated): Continued list of members since 1756.