Hermann Eduard Anton

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Hermann Eduard Anton (* 17th December 1794 in Görlitz ; † 17th March 1872 in Halle an der Saale ) was a German malacologist and shells collector systems booksellers, publishers and local politicians.

Anton was the son of a bookseller in Görlitz and trained as a bookseller in Halle an der Saale . He founded his own bookstore and a publishing house in Halle, and in 1822 he also moved his father's bookstore from Görlitz and combined it with his business. In his publishing house he published on philosophy, education, history, philology and natural sciences.

He was best known as a conchyllium collector and the printed catalog of his collection was considered a standard work for collectors in the 19th century. The date of publication is important for its first descriptions and, contrary to the entry in the catalog in 1839, is set to 1838 in the more recent literature. Fossil species can also be found in the catalog.

His first descriptions include Clanculus miniatus , Monoplex wiegmanni , Vexillum cancellarioides , Vexillum semicostatum , Oxystele variegata , Turbinella levigata , Turridrupa cerithina , Asolene pulchella , Euchelus pullatus and Oxystele Tigrina as well as the family Siliquariidae .

Clanculus miniatus, Anton 1838

He was a city councilor in Halle. In 1822 he married Johanna Augusta Hebenstreit, granddaughter of the Leipzig medical professor Ernst Hebenstreit, in Halle .

Some of his collection is in the Museum für Tierkunde Dresden .

Fonts

  • Directory of the conchylia which are in the collection of Hermann Eduard Anton . Anton, Halle 1839 ( digitized version ).

literature

  • Lülfing, Hans:  Anton, Hermann Eduard. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 1, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1953, ISBN 3-428-00182-6 , p. 318 ( digitized version ).
  • WO Cerhohorsky: The date of publication of Anton's “Directory of Conchylia.” In: The Veliger 20, 1978, p. 299
  • J. Le Renard, L. von Cosel: Les espèces fossils décrites en 1838 dans Directory of the Conchylien by HE Anton, In: Cossmanniana, 2, 1993, 67-74
  • K. Schniebs: The types and typoids of the mollusc collection of the Staatliches Museum für Tierkunde Dresden (I): The types of the recent mollusks described by HE Anton (1838), 7 parts in: Malakologische Abhandlungen, Volume 17, 1995 to Volume 21, 2003 ( Part 1: Volume 17, 1995, 167–171), Part 8 as:
  • K. Schniebs, M. Huber: The type specimens of recent mollusks described by Anton (1837 and 1838), Part 8, Ub; Mollusca 27, 2009, 201-208

Remarks

  1. So by Dietrich Kadolsky: Nomenklatorische Remarks . In: Archiv für Molluskenkunde 101, 1971, p. 193, Animalbase, University of Göttingen
  2. ^ German biography: Hebenstreit, Johann Ernst