Friedrich Heinrich Creplin
Friedrich Heinrich Creplin (born October 29, 1788 in Wolgast , † May 23, 1863 in Greifswald ; full name: Friedrich Heinrich Christian Creplin , also: Friedrich Christian Heinrich Creplin ) was a German zoologist and physician . He was one of the most famous helminthologists of his time.
Life
Friedrich Heinrich Creplin was born as the son of a customs administrator and merchant in the town of Wolgast , then part of Swedish Pomerania . He attended the city school in his home town of Wolgast and then studied science and medicine at the University of Greifswald from 1805 to 1809 . He then went to Berlin , where he by Christian Ludwig Mursinna in the surgery was taught and Friedlander in practical obstetrics. He also worked at the polyclinic founded by Christoph Wilhelm Hufeland together with Johann Gottlob Bernstein and Flemming. At the Collegium medico-chirurgicum , headed by Christoph Knape (1747–1831), he carried out dissection exercises .
After receiving his doctorate on July 27, 1811 in Greifswald, he settled in Wolgast as a general practitioner. On October 1, 1831, he received an assistant position at the botanical garden and zoological museum of Greifswald University with Christian Friedrich Hornschuch . In 1853 he became the curator of the Zoological Museum.
Creplin dealt with the predominantly with the study of invertebrates . He already had extensive experience in this field through his private collections, which had been created since 1822 and taken over by the university in 1831. He systematized and supplemented the university's collection, which he enabled to hand over duplicates of exhibits to other scientific institutions in Germany and abroad. The main focus of his zoological work was the research of endoparasites and entomology .
He published numerous articles in the Allgemeine Encyclopädie der Wissenschaften und Künste von Erf and Gruber. He also translated scientific treatises from Swedish, among others . For the first part of Friedrich Wilhelm Barthold's Pomeranian history , he edited the section on the fauna of Pomerania .
On October 17, 1856, Friedrich Heinrich Creplin was awarded the Order of the Red Eagle . He became a member of the Leopoldina in 1860 . On the occasion of the 50th anniversary of his doctoral degree, the Philosophical Faculty in Greifswald awarded him an honorary doctorate in 1861 .
Fonts (selection)
- Animadversiones in respirationem hominis et animalium . Dissertation. Greifswald 1811.
- CU Ekström: The fish in the shears of Mörko . Translated from Swedish by FCH Creplin, G. Reimer, Berlin 1835. ( digitized version )
- Observationes de entozois . Mauritius, Greifswald 1825.
- About the Entozoa genus Distomum . 1836
- Description of two amphistomes from the zebu ox . Berlin 1847.
literature
- Adolf Häckermann : Creplin, Friedrich Heinrich . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 4, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1876, p. 590 f.
- Lothar fights : Creplin, Heinrich (1788–1863) . In: Dirk Alvermann , Nils Jörn (Hrsg.): Biographisches Lexikon für Pommern. Vol. 2 (= Publications of the Historical Commission for Pomerania. Series V: Research on Pomeranian History. Vol. 48,2). Böhlau, Cologne et al. 2015, ISBN 978-3-412-22541-4 , pp. 72-75.
Individual evidence
- ↑ date of death after fighting; ADB different: March 23, 1863.
Web links
- Literature about Friedrich Heinrich Creplin in the state bibliography MV
- Writings by Friedrich Heinrich Creplin in the holdings of the Greifswald University Library
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Creplin, Friedrich Heinrich |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Creplin, Friedrich Heinrich Christian (full name); Creplin, Friedrich Christian Heinrich (full name); Creplin, Heinrich; Creplin, Christian |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German zoologist and medic |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 29, 1788 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Wolgast |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 23, 1863 |
| Place of death | Greifswald |