Heinrich Bodinus (zoologist)
Heinrich Karl August Bodinus , also Karl August Heinrich Bodinus (born July 29, 1814 in Drewelow , † November 23, 1884 in Berlin ) was a German doctor and zoologist . He founded the Cologne zoo and was director of the zoological garden in Berlin.
Life
Heinrich Bodinus was born the son of the domain tenant Friedrich Bodinius in Drewelow near Anklam . After attending the Jageteufel College in Stettin , he studied medicine in Greifswald and Berlin from 1833 . During his studies he became a member of the Arminia Greifswald fraternity in 1833 .
After graduating, he first settled in Bergen on Rügen as a general practitioner . In 1852 he moved to Greifswald , where he began studying zoology . He was mainly engaged in poultry farming . Through several publications he was considered an authority in the field. He was very committed to the spread of the Stralsund high fliers . The breed type Bodinus bottlenose dolphins and the Bodinus amazon Amazona festiva bodini as a subspecies of the blue- bearded amazon were named after him.
In 1859 he followed a call from Caspar Garthe to Cologne , where he successfully built the zoological garden. In the fall of 1869 he went to Berlin to successfully reorganize the in bad shape zoo.
Heinrich Bodinus died in Berlin in 1884 at the age of 70 and was buried in the Old Twelve Apostles Cemetery in Schöneberg . The grave has not been preserved.
Honors
- There is a “Bodinusstrasse” named after him not far from the Cologne Zoo and in Düsseldorf adjacent to the former zoological garden .
literature
- Wilhelm Hess : Bodinus, Karl August . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 47, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1903, p. 67.
- Karl Max Schneider: Bodinus, Heinrich. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 2, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1955, ISBN 3-428-00183-4 , p. 358 f. ( Digitized version ).
- Bodinus, Heinrich . In: Meyers Konversationslexikon . Volume 3. Fourth edition. Verlag des Bibliographisches Institut, Leipzig and Vienna 1885–1892, pp. 118–119.
- Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume I: Politicians. Volume 7: Supplement A – K. Winter, Heidelberg 2013, ISBN 978-3-8253-6050-4 , pp. 105-106.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Hans-Jürgen Mende: Lexicon of Berlin burial places . Pharus-Plan, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-86514-206-1 , p. 749.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Bodinus, Heinrich |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Bodinus, Heinrich Karl August (full name); Bodinus, Karl August Heinrich (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German doctor and zoologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 29, 1814 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Drewelow |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 23, 1884 |
| Place of death | Berlin |