Gottlieb Conrad Christian Storr

Gottlieb Conrad Christian Storr, painting oil on canvas in the professors' gallery of the Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen

Gottlieb Conrad Christian Storr (born June 16, 1749 in Stuttgart ; † February 27, 1821 in Tübingen ), also written Gottlieb Konrad Christian Storr , was a German chemist and naturalist .

Life

After completing his studies at the University of Tübingen in 1768 , Storr was appointed Professor of Chemistry and Botany at the Faculty of Medicine of the same university in 1774 . In the following years he wrote various writings on natural history and medical topics. The classification of the raccoon in its own genus with the name Procyon , which he carried out in 1780, goes back to Storr . In 1784 he published an extensive report on his trip to the Swiss Alps in 1781 . Due to health problems, Storr resigned from his professorship in 1801.

Since 1794 he was an honorary member of the Russian Academy of Sciences in Saint Petersburg .

Fonts

Gottlieb Conrad Christian Storr: Draft of a series of conversations as an introduction to natural history . August Lebrecht Stettin, Frankfurt and Leipzig 1776.
Gottlieb Conrad Christian Storr: Alpine trip from 1781 . JG Müller, Leipzig 1784.
Gottlieb Conrad Christian Storr: Idea Methodi Fossilium ( Latin ). Publishing house JF Steinkopf , Stuttgart 1807.

Web links

Wikisource: Gottlieb Konrad Christian Storr - Sources and full texts

Works by and about Gottlieb Conrad Christian Storr in the German Digital Library

Individual evidence

^ Storr, Gottlieb Conrad Christian in: Curtis Schuh's Biobibliography of Mineralogy . The Mineralogical Record.

↑ ^a ^b Wolf von Engelhardt, Helmut Hölder: Mineralogy, geology and paleontology at the University of Tübingen from the beginnings to the present . Franz Steiner Verlag, Stuttgart 1977, ISBN 978-3169397525 , p. 14.

↑ Ulf Hohmann, Ingo Bartussek; Bernhard Böer: The raccoon . Oertel + Spörer, Reutlingen 2001, ISBN 978-3886273010 , p. 44.

↑ Virginia C. Holmgren: Raccoons in Folklore, History and Today's Backyards ( English ). Capra Press, Santa Barbara 1990, ISBN 978-0884963127 , pp. 68-69.

^ Foreign members of the Russian Academy of Sciences since 1724. Gottlieb Conrad Christian Storr. Russian Academy of Sciences, accessed November 10, 2015 (Russian).

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personal data
SURNAME	Storr, Gottlieb Conrad Christian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German naturalist
DATE OF BIRTH	June 16, 1749
PLACE OF BIRTH	Stuttgart
DATE OF DEATH	February 27, 1821
Place of death	Tübingen

[Curtis-1] Storr, Gottlieb Conrad Christian in: Curtis Schuh's Biobibliography of Mineralogy . The Mineralogical Record.

[Engelhardt-2] Wolf von Engelhardt, Helmut Hölder: Mineralogy, geology and paleontology at the University of Tübingen from the beginnings to the present . Franz Steiner Verlag, Stuttgart 1977, ISBN 978-3169397525 , p. 14.

[3] Ulf Hohmann, Ingo Bartussek; Bernhard Böer: The raccoon . Oertel + Spörer, Reutlingen 2001, ISBN 978-3886273010 , p. 44.

[4] Virginia C. Holmgren: Raccoons in Folklore, History and Today's Backyards ( English ). Capra Press, Santa Barbara 1990, ISBN 978-0884963127 , pp. 68-69.

[5] Foreign members of the Russian Academy of Sciences since 1724. Gottlieb Conrad Christian Storr. Russian Academy of Sciences, accessed November 10, 2015 (Russian).