Georg Duncker
Paul Georg Egmont Duncker (born May 6, 1870 in Hamburg ; † July 28, 1953 in Ahrensburg ) was a German ichthyologist and in this capacity curator and zoologist at the Zoological Museum Hamburg .
Life
Georg Duncker was born as the son of a wealthy Hamburg merchant. He first studied medicine, then zoology and received his doctorate in Kiel in 1893. This was followed by trips and stays in Karlsruhe , Naples , Plymouth and Cold Spring Harbor .
In 1900 he was hired by Bruno Mencke to take part in an expedition to the Bismarck Archipelago , which he left in Herbertshöhe in German New Guinea shortly before the organizer was slain by locals on the St. Matthias Islands . Duncker remained in Indochina, where he temporarily at the Museum in Kuala Lumpur worked and Sumatra , Ceylon and India traveled.
In 1904 he described as Rasbora heteromorpha a harlequin harlequin that populates smaller flowing waters of the rainforest in Southeast Asia. In the first year he was involved in the Hamburg South Sea Expedition 1908-1910 . With the organizer Georg Thilenius and the director Friedrich Fülleborn there seem to have been differences of a personal nature.
After that, Duncker stayed in Hamburg, where he had worked as curator and professor at the Zoological Museum from 1928. Since 1939 he was an honorary member of the American Society of Ichtyologists and Herpetologists .
Individual evidence
- ↑ see: Leipold, Andreas; The first year of the Hamburg South Sea Expedition in German New Guinea (1908 - 1909); Master's thesis University of Bayreuth 2006; 288S
- ↑ Kürschner's German Scholars Calendar; Vol. 7 (1950), p. 379.
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| SURNAME | Duncker, Georg |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Duncker, Paul Georg Egmont (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German ichthyologist, curator and professor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 6, 1870 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Hamburg |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 28, 1953 |
| Place of death | Ahrensburg |