Gottlieb Weissmann
Gottlieb Weissmann (born August 13, 1798 in Niederstetten , † December 22, 1859 in Stuttgart ) was a German fossil collector and pharmacist .
Life
Weissmann, the son of a bailiff, trained as a pharmacist in Öhringen and then went on a journey as a pharmacist's assistant in Friedrichshafen , Solothurn , Karlsruhe and Stuttgart . Even as a teenager he was interested in botany . He married in 1828, was a pharmacist in Metzingen until his pharmacy was sold in 1840 and then lived in Stuttgart. In Metzingen he researched the geology of the area and came into contact with scientists such as Leopold von Buch , Gustav Schübler (who visited him frequently) and Georg Graf zu Münster . During a visit to his older brother Emanuel, a lawyer ( court notary ) in Crailsheim (whose daughter he adopted), he discovered the fossil-rich "Crailsheimer Bone Breccia" (Grenzbonebed Muschelkalk / Keuper ) in a quarry on the Jagstufer .
Among other things, he found a skull of a Nothosaurus . His finds were scientifically processed and published in 1844 by Hermann von Meyer and the teacher in Stuttgart Theodor Plieninger (1795–1879).
In 1843, Georg Graf zu Münster named a fossil starfish found by Weissmann in honor of Gottlieb Weissmann " Asterias Weissmanni " (today: Trichasteropsis weissmanni (MÜNSTER 1843)).
The Weissmann Collection is now in the Stuttgart Museum of Natural History . In 1844 he was a founding member and long-time treasurer of the Association for Patriotic Natural History in Württemberg .
literature
- Hans Hagdorn : Crailsheim and the exploration of the Triassic in Württemberg . In the S. (Ed.): New research on the geological history of Crailsheim. In memory of Hofrat Richard Blezinger (special volumes of the Society for Natural History in Württemberg, Vol. 1). Goldschneck-Verlag, Stuttgart 1988, ISBN 3-926129-04-2 , pages 9-21.
- Johann Gottlob von Kurr : Obituary. In: Annual books of the Association for Patriotic Natural History in Württemberg , Volume 17 (1861), pp. 40–43, ISSN 0368-4717 ( archive )
References and comments
- ^ Hermann von Meyer, Theodor Plieninger: Contributions to the paleontology of Württemberg: Containing the fossil vertebrate remains from the Triassic formations with special consideration for the Keuper's labyrinthodonts . E. Schweizerbart'sche Verlagbuchhandlung, Stuttgart 1844.
- ↑ Contributions to Petrefactenkunde , Vol. 6 (1843), p. 78, Plate II, Fig. 4.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Weissmann, Gottlieb |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German fossil collector and pharmacist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 13, 1798 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Niederstetten |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 22, 1859 |
| Place of death | Stuttgart |