Gottfried Nägele

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Gottfried Nägele (born November 10, 1841 in Ebnet (Bonndorf in the Black Forest) , † January 27, 1914 in Waltersweier ) was a German Catholic priest and malacologist .

Life

Gottfried Nägele was born on November 10, 1841 on the Kohlhalder Hof near Ebnet and grew up there with four sisters. When he was two years old, his father died. First he attended elementary school in the Sommerau and then in Ebnet. At noon he tended the cattle on his parents' farm. Since he was a good student, he got the opportunity to attend grammar school in Donaueschingen and from 1860 to 1864 in Constance . Even then he began to systematically analyze the flora of the Black Forest . He studied in Freiburg theology and was ordained a priest in 1868. After years of chaplaincy in Grießen , Neustadt and Waldshut , he came to Waltersweier near Offenburg as parish administrator in 1873 . In 1883 he was given the parish, in which he was pastor until his death in 1914.

research

As a farmer's son and herding boy, the beginning of his research work was probably awakened by the close observation of the native flora and fauna. He discovered the black cabbage rose on the meadows of his parents' farm at a young age , a species of orchid that no longer exists there today, as the local farm was demolished and reforested at the end of the 19th century. His main research area was in the field of mollusc research and in particular the discovery and identification of numerous species of snails . This research also earned him the affectionate nickname "snail pastor". Although he never traveled to the Orient or Asian countries himself, he has amassed a very extensive collection of snail shells from this region. To this end, he made contact with many mission stations outside of Europe and asked for particularly beautiful and unusual copies to be sent. The resulting duplicates were made available to universities and collections at home and abroad for their malocozoological research. Nägele was in close contact with Professors Oskar Boettger and Wilhelm Kobelt at the Senckenberg Nature Museum in Frankfurt , who examined and classified the new species brought to science by Nägele. The species discovered by Nägele were presented and published in the newsletter of the German Malacozoological Society , the communications of the German Malacozoological Society, which has been published since 1868 .

Nägele himself regularly published articles in the newsletter of the Malacoological Society. He was in contact with scholars and research institutes all over the world and yet had always remained the simple village pastor. He refused all church and state honors and awards. His own precious collection of conchies was thought to be lost for a long time. Shortly before his death, he gave them to his friend, Freiburg Auxiliary Bishop Justus Knecht , who in turn gave them to the Ursulines of the Catholic Institute in Freiburg for teaching purposes. During the Second World War , this educational institution was closed and a military hospital was set up. The collection was discovered and the Senckenberg Natural Research Society in Frankfurt am Main was notified, which purchased the collection and transferred it to the Senckenberg Natural History Museum in Frankfurt in August 1941 .

Publications

  • 1890 (together with O. Boettger) Two new Syrian clauses. - Message Bl. Dtsch. Malak. Ges., 22: pp. 137-140
  • 1890 Two new Syrian species. - Message Bl. Dtsch. Malak. Ges., 22: pp. 140-141
  • 1893 The mollusc fauna of northwestern Persia. - Message Bl. Dtsch. Malak. Ges., 25: pp. 148-149
  • 1894 Some things from eastern Asia Minor. - Message Bl. Dtsch. Malak. Ges., 26: pp. 104-107
  • 1897 Some new Syrian land and freshwater snails. - Message Bl. Dtsch. Malak. Ges., 29: pp. 13-15
  • 1899 A new Pomatia from Persia. - Message Bl. Dtsch. Malak. Ges., 31: pp. 28-29
  • 1899 Something from Baden. - Message Bl. Dtsch. Malak. Ges., 31: pp. 73-77
  • 1901 Some novelties from the Middle East [I]. - Message Bl. Dtsch. Malak. Ges., 33: pp. 16-31
  • 1902 Some novelties from the Middle East [II]. - Message Bl. Dtsch. Malak. Ges., 34: pp. 1-9
  • 1903 Helix pomatia L. - Nachr. Bl. Dtsch. Malak. Ges., 35: pp. 24-27
  • 1903 Something from the Middle East. - Message Bl. Dtsch. Malak. Ges., 35: pp. 168-177
  • 1906 Something from the Middle East. - Message Bl. Dtsch. Malak. Ges., 38: pp. 25-30
  • 1910 Something from Asia Minor. - Message Bl. Dtsch. Malak. Ges., 42: pp. 145-152
  • 1913 Helix aspersa MÜLLER. - Message Bl. Dtsch. Malak. Ges., 45: pp. 94-95

literature

  • Artur Riesterer: The "snail pastor" from Ebnet (Gottfried Nägele 1841–1914) . In: City of Bonndorf in the Black Forest (Hrsg.): City on the Black Forest Bonndorf . Schillinger, Freiburg im Breisgau 1980, ISBN 3-921340-11-X , p. 183-184 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Franz Dor; "Gottfried Nägele a quiet priest = and scholar = life"; Rastatt printing house of the Rastatter Zeitung GmbH 1918
  2. ^ [1] Website Senckenberg Museum
personal data
SURNAME Nägele, Gottfried
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Catholic priest and malacologist
DATE OF BIRTH November 10, 1841
PLACE OF BIRTH Ebnet (Bonndorf in the Black Forest)
DATE OF DEATH January 27, 1914
Place of death Waltersweier