Fritz Dieterlen
Fritz Dieterlen (born April 12, 1929 in Rottweil , Baden-Württemberg ; † January 17, 2017 ) was a German mammaloge . His research focus was on small African mammals , especially rodents .
Life
After studying zoology, botany and geography in Munich and Freiburg, Dieterlen received his doctorate in 1959 with the dissertation The behavior of the Syrian golden hamster (Mesocricetus auratus Waterhouse): Investigations into the question of its development and its innate proportions through odor-isolated rearing at the Zoological Institute of the Albert Ludwig University Freiburg . From 1959 to 1962 he received a research fellowship for behavioral studies in rodents. From 1963 to 1967 he worked at the Institut pour la Recherche Scientifique en Afrique Centrale (IRSAC) in Lwiro-Bukavu in the Democratic Republic of the Congo . During this time he conducted studies of the ecology and taxonomy of rodents in the savannahs and rainforests in East and Central Africa . From 1967 to 1969 he was curator for mammals at the Alexander Koenig Research Institute and Museum in Bonn.
From 1969 to 1994 he took over the management of the mammal department of the State Museum for Natural History Stuttgart (SMNS). Dieterlen has been volunteering for the museum since his retirement in 1994.
In addition, he continued his research on African rodents. Dieterlen has written articles for various journals, including the magazine for mammalian history , the magazine for applied zoology , mammalian reports , Stuttgart zoological articles and Bonn zoological articles . He wrote the chapters on the families of the thorntail squirrels (Anomaluridae), the spring hares (Pedetidae) and the comb fingers (Ctenodactylidae) in the standard work Mammal Species of the World (2005) and was the author and co-author of numerous articles in Kingdon's Mammals of Africa ( 2013) involved. For Grzimek's animal life he wrote the sections " blind mice ", " root rats ", "real mice or long-tailed mice " and "other subfamilies of the rooters ". In collaboration with Monika Braun, Dieterlen published the two-volume work Die Säugetiere Baden-Württemberg (Volume 1: Fledermäuse (Chiroptera), 2003; Volume 2: Insectivores (Insectivoria), lagomorpha ), rodents (Rodentia), predators (Carnivora), arthropods (Artiodactyla), 2005)
Dieterlen described several new African rodent species, including Dendromus kahuziensis , Megadendromus nikolausi , Lophuromys eisentrauti , Lophuromys medicaudatus , Grammomys caniceps , minnae Grammomys , Lemniscomys hoogstraali , Praomys misonnei , Praomys obscurus , Stenocephalemys Ruppi and Otomys occidentalis .
Taxa named after Dieterlen
In 1976, the Belgian zoologist Erik van der Straeten named the subspecies Lemniscomys striatus dieterleni of genuine grass strip mouse to Dieterlen. 1986 Rainer Hutterer honored Dieterlen with the epithet of the subspecies Sylvisorex johnstoni dieterleni of the Johnstons wood musk shrew . In 1997, the Dieterlen brush- haired mouse ( Lophuromys dieterleni ) from Cameroon, described by Walter Verheyen , Jan Hulselmans, Marc Colyn and Rainer Hutterer, was named in honor of Fritz Dieterlen.
literature
- Bo Beolens, Michael Watkins, Michael Grayson: The Eponym Dictionary of Mammals JHU Press, 2009, ISBN 9780801893049 : pp. 111-112
- Rainer Hutterer : Hommage to Fritz Dieterlen In: Christiane Denys, Laurent Granjon & Alain Poulet (eds.) African Small Mammals - Petits mammifères africains . Proceedings of the 8th International Symposium on African Small Mammals Paris, July 1999. IRD Editions Institut De Recherche Pour Le Développement collection Colloques et séminaires Paris, 2001, pp. 43-53
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Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Dieterlen, Fritz |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German mammal loge |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 12, 1929 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Rottweil , Baden-Wuerttemberg |
| DATE OF DEATH | 17th January 2017 |