Friedrich Reusmann

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Friedrich Reusmann (full name Johann Georg Friedrich Reusmann ; * December 1778 in Hanover , † April 22, 1848 in Lehrte ) was a German pastor , collector and zoologist .

Life

Johann Georg Friedrich Reusmann, who was born in Hanover at the end of 1778 in the Electorate of Braunschweig-Lüneburg during the personal union between Great Britain and Hanover, studied theology at the Georg-August University of Göttingen .

During the so-called “ French era ”, Reusmann was appointed as a collaborator at the Hanoverian Aegidienkirche on November 21, 1807 (German: appointed). In 1824 he went to Lehrte , where he worked as a pastor of the local parish.

Over a long period of time, Reusmann built up a zoological collection in Lehrte. It included around 100 mammal, 550 bird, 200 reptile and fish, around 1000 conchylia and 10,000 insect species. From around the end of 1846 onwards, the collection supplemented the general collection of the Royal Academic Museum in Göttingen as “Fauna hannoverana” with the municipal license (German: generosity) from Ernst August , King of Hanover .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Justus Bode : Documentation of the Royal State Servants who had died since December 1, 1847 , in: Court and State Manual for the Kingdom of Hanover for the year 1849 ; Hanover: Printing and publishing of the Berenbergschen Buchdruckerei (Theaterplatz No. 3), [1849], p. III; Digitized via Google books
  2. ↑ a b c Hermann Wilhelm Bödeker : The Reformation of the old town of Hanover in 1533. A preparatory document for the third commemoration of our city's conversion to the Protestant church. In addition to a list of the Protestant church servants employed here ... , Hanover: Hahnsche Hofbuchhandlung, 1833, p. 22; Digitized via Google books
  3. ↑ a b Royal Academic Museum , Issue 1 of January 4, 1847 in: News from the Georg August University and the Royal. Society of Sciences in Göttingen , born 1847, Göttingen: printed in the Dieterichschen Universitätsdruckerei, 1847, p. 1; Digitized via Google books
  4. ↑ a b Information in the catalog of the German National Library
personal data
SURNAME Reusmann, Friedrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Reusmann, Johann Georg Friedrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Protestant pastor, collector and zoologist
DATE OF BIRTH December 1778
PLACE OF BIRTH Hanover
DATE OF DEATH April 22, 1848
Place of death Taught