Friedrich Held (malacologist)

Friedrich Held (born July 21, 1812 in Landshut , † January 25, 1872 in Munich ) was a German malacologist .

Even as a teenager, Held was interested in natural history - his father A. Held was the curator of the Royal Bavarian Natural History Cabinet and a member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences . After graduating from high school in 1832, Held first studied medicine at the University of Munich at the (today's) Wilhelmsgymnasium Munich , which he completed with a doctorate . When a professorship for natural history was advertised at the royal district trade school in Munich, he successfully applied in a competition and was able to take up the position in 1845.

He published mainly on Bavarian mollusks (which he researched mainly in the Bavarian Alps ) in the journal Isis. A number of initial descriptions and studies on the systematics of the genera helix , pupa and bulimus come from him .

The Friedrich Held Society for the Advancement of Scientific Molluscology is named after him.

Fonts

• Contribution to the history of the molluscs. In: Isis. 1834.
• List of the mollusks living in Bavaria. In: Isis. 1836 (4), pp. 271-282.
• Notes about the molluscs of Bavaria. In: Isis. 1837 (4), pp. 303-309, and 1837 (12), pp. 902-919.
• The water and land mollusks of Bavaria. In: Annual reports of the trade school in Munich. 1846/47, 1847/48.

literature

• S. Clessin: Bulletin of the German Malakozoological Society. Volume 4, No. 2, 1872, pp. 20-22.
• A. Zilch: History of the malacological section. From the history of the Senckenberg Museum. No. 13, In: Archives for Molluscology. Volume 97, 1967, pp. 7-43.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Max Leitschuh: The matriculations of the upper classes of the Wilhelmsgymnasium in Munich , 4 vol., Munich 1970–1976; Vol. 4, p. 2.
2. ^ Friedrich Held Society