Georg Pfeffer (zoologist)

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Johann Georg Pfeffer (born March 7, 1854 in Berlin ; † December 4, 1931 ) was a German zoologist .

Life

Pfeffer was a malacologist . In 1887 he became the museum director of the Natural History Museum founded in Hamburg in 1843 , which was destroyed in World War II. Pfeffer worked there as a curator and published scientific works mainly on cephalopods (cephalopods). He described, among other things, the miracle lamps ( Lycoteuthis ). Pfeffer tried to further simplify Darwin's teaching. He commented on the following:

“The struggle for existence weeds out all bad pieces and lets some of the average individuals of the species survive; Changes in the external living conditions change the species by changing the average of the surviving pieces, thus imposing a different overall character on the mass of the species and making it appear to relatives as a different passport, variety or species. The remaining part of Darwin's doctrine, namely the gradual breeding of the new passes and species, thus appears unnecessary; the original DarwiN principle of the survival of the fitting is sufficient for an understanding of the possible changes in shape. "

- Georg Pfeffer : Negotiations of the German Zoological Society. P. 77.

Fonts (selection)

  • The crabs of South Georgia after the yield of the German station 1882–83 . 1st chapter. Printed by Lütke & Wulff, Hamburg 1887, OCLC 66549866 .
  • The lower animal world of the Antarctic shore area. Berlin 1890, OCLC 900653741 ( books.google.com ).
  • Georg Pfeffer: Fish, mollusks and echinoderms from Spitzbergen, collected by Prof. W, Kükenthal in 1886 . In: Zoological Yearbooks. Department of Systematics, Geography and Biology of Animals . tape 8 . Gustav Fischer, Jena 1894, OCLC 939744622 , p. 91-99 .
  • The cephalopods of the plankton expedition. At the same time a monographic overview of the oegopsid cephalopods . In: Results of the Humboldt Foundation's plankton expedition . tape 2 . Lipsius & Tische, Kiel 1912, doi : 10.5962 / bhl.title.10474 .
  1. Atlas with explanations. 1912.
  2. Text with comment. 1912.
  • To the knowledge of tertiary land snails, (=  eological and palaeontological treatises ... NF Volume 17 , issue 3). G. Fischer, Jena 1929, OCLC 9653487 .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Negotiations of the German Zoological Society  - Internet Archive
personal data
SURNAME Pfeffer, Georg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German zoologist
DATE OF BIRTH March 7, 1854
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH December 4, 1931