Friedrich Paetel

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Friedrich Paetel (born February 7, 1812 in Berlin-Schöneberg ; † 1888 ) was a German local politician, malacologist and conchylia collector.

Paetel came from the Paetel publishing family in Berlin, the owners of the Gebrüder Paetel publishing house . He was the father of the publishing house owner, the brothers Hermann and Elwin Paetel. He was a city councilor for Berlin.

He donated his large collection of Conchylia to the Museum of Natural History in Berlin. The donation of the collection, estimated at 60,000 marks, to the Natural History Museum, which opened in 1889, was faithfully carried out by his sons Hermann and Elwin, who received the Red Eagle Order IV class for this. The condition was that no piece could be sold or exchanged and that all copies should have a label of origin from the Paetel collection. Paetel also wrote a catalog of his collection, which has long been used as a reference to taxonomic and authoring questions. The collection was one of the largest private Conchylia collections of the 19th century.

Fonts

  • Molluscorum systema et catalogus. System and enumeration of all conchylia in the collection of Fr. Paetel, to stimulate interest in malacoology according to his manuscript edited by Dr. LW Schaufuss, Dresden 1869
  • Catalog of the Conchylia collection by Fr. Paetel, 2 volumes (Volume 2; the previously published family and generic names of the molluscs), Verlag Gebr. Paetel, Berlin 1873, 1875
  • Catalog of the Conchylia collection, with the addition of the recent species published up to now, as well as the identified synonyma, several volumes, Berlin: Verlag Gebr. Paetel, 4th edition, 1888–1890, Biodiversity Heritage Library

literature

  • H. Freiherr von Maltzahn, obituary in the newsletter of the German Malakozoological Society, Volume 20, 1888, Issue 3-4, pp. 33-38
  • H. Crosse, P. Fischer, Nécrologue, Journal de Conchyliologie, 37, 1889, 89-99
  • WJ Clench: Paetel's Catalog, Occasional Papers on Mollusks 13 (1), 1948, 212

References and comments

  1. ↑ Museum für Naturkunde Berlin, Malacology Department ( Memento of the original from April 23, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.naturkundemuseum-berlin.de
  2. ↑ Carsten Kretschmann, rooms open up. Natural history museums in 19th century Germany, Akademie Verlag 2006, p. 168
personal data
SURNAME Paetel, Friedrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German local politician, malacologist and conchylia collector
DATE OF BIRTH February 7, 1812
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin-Schöneberg
DATE OF DEATH 1888