Heinrich Lenz (zoologist)

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Museum am Dom (around 1893)

Heinrich Wilhelm Christian Lenz (born March 30, 1846 in Lübeck ; † January 16, 1913 there ) was a German teacher and zoologist .

Life

From 1872 Heinrich Lenz was a teacher of natural sciences and drawing at the high school, later the Johanneum zu Lübeck, and from 1875 to 1913 he was the successor of the painter and draftsman Carl Julius Milde as curator of the natural history collection of the non-profit society, which he incorporated in 1884 Natural History Museum and in 1893 transferred to the Lübeck Museum of Natural History in the Museum am Dom .

With Johannes Nöhring , who made the collotype boards, he published a work on the anthropomorphic monkeys in the Lübeck Museum in 1874 . In 1876 he described the internal structure of the shell shawl Estheria californica Packard , 1874, based on specimens that his friend Jakob Behrens had picked up in San Francisco at the mouth of Alameda Creek .

As a zoologist, carcinology , the study of crustaceans , and arachnology , the study of arachnids , were his particularly pronounced research focuses .

He worked on the crabs in the Chile collection of the zoologist Ludwig Plate and was the first to describe the crustaceans Porcellanopagurus platei Lenz , 1902 and Lepidopas chilensis Lenz , 1902. The decapods that Heinrich Lenz began to work on were the decapods collected by the German South Polar Expedition (1901-1903) by his long-time assistant, the Lübeck teacher Karl Strunck (1869–1955), completed after his death.

As an arachnologist, he is the first to describe numerous other taxa such as the zebra hunting spider Viridasius fasciatus ( Lenz , 1886) from the arachnid collection of the Lübeck merchant Carl Reuter from the island of Nosy Be off the northwest coast of Madagascar and that named after the collector Albert O'Swald Web spider Zorodictyna oswaldi ( Lenz , 1891) from the collection of the Natural History Museum Hamburg .

He was chairman of the Geographical Society of Lübeck .

Heinrich Lenz held the title of professor and was appointed on October 7, 1892 in the zoology and anatomy section with matriculation no. In 2976 elected a member of the Imperial Leopoldino-Carolinian German Academy of Natural Scientists . In 1899 he was appointed a corresponding member of the Senckenberg Natural Research Society . He was an honorary member of the Natural Science Association for Schleswig-Holstein and was appointed honorary member of the Natural Science Association in Hamburg shortly before his death on December 30, 1912 .

The Swedish industrialist Hans Lagerlöf was his son-in-law and married to his daughter Clara, the painter and later patron Clara Lenz .

The Heinrich-Lenz-Weg in Lübeck was named after Heinrich Wilhelm Christian Lenz.

Fonts (selection)

  • with Johannes Nöhring: The anthropomorphic monkeys of the Lübeck Museum. Material to promote the knowledge of this monkey family . Seelig, Lübeck 1876 ( digitized version )
  • Estheria californica pack. In: Archive for Natural History, 43, 1, 1877, pp. 24–40 ( digitized version )
  • Contributions to the knowledge of the spider fauna of Madagascar . In: Zoological Yearbooks. Journal of Systematics, Geography and Biology of Animals, 1, 2, Fischer, Jena 1886, pp. 379–408 ( digitized version )
  • Spiders from Madagascar and Nossibé . In: Yearbook of the Hamburg Scientific Institutions, 9, Hamburg 1891, pp. 161–182 ( digitized version )
  • The crustaceans of the Plate collection (Decapoda and Stomatopoda) . In: Fauna Chilensis. Treatises on the knowledge of the zoology of Chile based on the collections of Dr. L. Plate. Second volume. Zoological Yearbooks, Department of Systematics, Ecology and Geography of Animals. Suppl. 5 (3), 1902, pp. 731–772, plate 23 ( digitized version )
  • with Karl Strunck: The decapods of the German South Pole Expedition 1901–1903. 1: Brachyurs and Macrurs excluding the Sergestides . In: Erich von Drygalski (Ed.): Deutsche Südpolar-Expedition (1901–1903), XV, Zoologie VII, Reimer, Berlin 1914 ( digitized version )

literature

  • Anonymous: Heinrich Lenz † . In: Communications from the Geographical Society and the Natural History Museum in Lübeck, 2, 26, Lübeck 1913, pp. 1–8 ( digitized version )
  • Carl Hermann Knoblauch (Ed.): Leopoldina . Official organ of the Imperial Leopoldino-Carolinian German Academy of Natural Scientists. 28th issue. In commission at Wilh. Engelmann in Leipzig, Halle 1892, p. 165 ( biodiversitylibrary.org ).
  • Lübeck art auction house Cornelius CM Michaelsen: Antiques and paintings by old and new masters. Estate: † Museum director Prof. Dr. Lenz, Lübeck, collection: † Captain Ob ..; ua , Lübeck 1913 ( digitized version )
  • Albert Wangerin (Ed.): Leopoldina . Official organ of the Leopoldine-Carolinian German Academy of Natural Scientists. 49th issue. On commission at Wilh. Engelmann in Leipzig, Halle 1913, p. 33 ( archive.org ).

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personal data
SURNAME Lenz, Heinrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lenz, Heinrich Wilhelm Christian (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German teacher and zoologist
DATE OF BIRTH March 30, 1846
PLACE OF BIRTH Lübeck
DATE OF DEATH January 16, 1913
Place of death Lübeck