Hermann Martin Asmuss

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Hermann Martin Asmuss

Hermann Martin Asmuss , also Hermann Martin Asmuss , (* May 12, 1812 in Dorpat ; † December 6, 1859 ibid) was a German-Baltic zoologist ( entomologist ) and paleontologist .

Life

Asmuss was the son of the teacher and writer Johann Martin Asmuss (1784–1844) from Lübeck. He attended high school in Dorpat and studied natural sciences there from 1830. In 1835 he received his doctorate in Königsberg and was then a private lecturer at the University of Dorpat . In 1839 he became a lecturer and deputy director of the zoological cabinet and, after obtaining his master's degree in 1857, deputy associate professor and from 1858 full professor of zoology. He was also a teacher.

He was an expert on the classification of Schnabelkerfen (Hemiptera). As a paleontologist, he dug in Aruküla caves in the Devonian sandstone near Tartu (Dorpat) and collected fish fossils from the Devonian, which became the property of the University of Dorpat and from there to the Natural History Museum. In 1853 he was a founding member of the Natural Research Society of Dorpat.

The Iranian lizard Uromastyx asmussi (by his student Strauch 1863) was named after him. In 1849 Raimund Pacht named the fossil conchostrake genus Asmussia after Asmuss.

Memberships

In 1839 Asmuss was introduced by Félix Édouard Guérin-Méneville as member number 165 of the Société cuviérienne .

Fonts

  • The most perfect skin skeleton of the animal kingdoms known so far. Found on fossil fish of the old red sandstone and explained from their remains, 1856

literature

  • Commemorative speech by H. Asmuss, meeting reports of the natural scientist society in Dorpat. 1860. Vol. 1, H. 8, pp. 346-353
  • C. Grewingk. The mineralogical cabinet of the Imperial University of Dorpat. Addendum I. Dorpat, 1868
  • Société Cuvierienne: Nouveaux membres admis dans la Société curvienne . In: Revue Zoologique par La Société Cuvierienne . tape 2 , 1839, p. 192 ( biodiversitylibrary.org ).

Web links

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Bo Beolens, Michael Watkins, Michael Grayson, The eponym dictionary of reptiles, Johns Hopkins University Press 2011, entry Asmuss
  2. ↑ Beolens u. a. 2011, loc. cit.
  3. ^ Société cuviérienne, p. 192.
personal data
SURNAME Asmuss, Hermann Martin
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Asmuß, Hermann Martin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-Baltic zoologist
DATE OF BIRTH May 12, 1812
PLACE OF BIRTH Dorpat
DATE OF DEATH December 6, 1859
Place of death Dorpat