Hermann Strebel (malacologist)

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Hermann Strebel 1905, photography by Rudolph Dührkoop
Max Liebermann : Hermann Strebel 1905, Hamburger Kunsthalle

Hermann Strebel (born January 1, 1834 in Hamburg ; † November 6, 1914 there ) was a German businessman, malacologist and ethnologist .

Life

Carl Wilhelm Hermann Strebel was born on January 1, 1834 in Hamburg, the youngest of four brothers. During his school days he was encouraged to work with conchylia by a teacher . On August 13, 1848, the thirteen-year-old set sail for Veracruz / Mexico . There he was supposed to take up an apprenticeship in a manufacturing business under the supervision of his eldest brother. Shortly off the coast of Yucatan , Strebel survived a shipwreck. Between 1852 and 1867 he worked as a merchant for German exporters of manufactured goods. During this time, under the guidance of his friend Carl Hermann Berendt, he began collecting local conchylia , which formed the basis of his collection. At this time he began a lively scientific exchange with German and American malacologists .

In 1860 he married the Mexican-born merchant daughter Inés Mahn. His eldest son Richard Strebel was born there in 1861 . In 1867 the family of five moved to Hamburg. Between 1867 and 1899 Strebel ran a company he co-founded for other timber.

From 1899 he worked scientifically in the mollusc department of the Natural History Museum in Hamburg . Through contact with other German malacologists, he published his first scientific work on Mexican land and freshwater molluscs from 1873 to 1882. At the same time, he had a family friend in Mexico carry out archaeological excavations at various locations and set up a collection in Hamburg which he used scientifically. In order to finance further excavation activities, he sold excavation finds to the Museum für Völkerkunde , Berlin, to the Museum für Völkerkunde and Leipzig .

Hermann Strebel was involved in the " Natural Science Association of Hamburg " and was its chairman in 1886 and 1887. In 1904 he received the Order of the Red Eagle, 4th class, in 1906 the Loubat Prize of the Royal Prussian Academy of Sciences , Berlin, in 1904 he was awarded an honorary doctorate in philosophy from the University of Giessen and in January 1914 he was made professor for his services by the Hamburg Senate appointed to science and the Hamburg scientific institutions. Hermann Strebel died in Hamburg on November 6, 1914. He is buried in the Ohlsdorf cemetery.

Hermann Strebel was portrayed by Max Liebermann in 1905 on behalf of Alfred Lichtwark , director of the Hamburger Kunsthalle .

His Conchylia collection, like that of the Hamburg Museum, was destroyed in the Second World War. For example, he described a number of Mexican land snails and published a revision of the land snails of the Orthalicidae family .

plant

  • Contributions to the knowledge of the Mexican land and freshwater conchylia , 5 booklets, Hamburg 1873–1882
  • The ruins of Cempollan in the State of Veracruz (Mexico) , information about the Totonaks of the present time, ruins from the Misantla area , in: Treatises of the Natural Science Association in Hamburg , Vol. VIII, Part 1, 1884
  • Ancient Mexico, Archaeological Contributions to the Cultural History of its Inhabitants, Part I and II, Hamburg and Leipzig 1885–1889 ( digitized part I ), ( digitized part II )
  • Studies on the stone yokes , in: International Archive for Ethnography , Volume III. Leiden, 1890

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Hans Schröder: Lexicon of Hamburg writers
  2. ↑ Sommer & Strebel 1867–1967. Hamburg sketches on the history of German timber imports, in: Hamburgische Wirtschaftschronik , Vol. 3., H 3. 1967, pp. 221–305. (Friedrich Wilhelm Sommer (Lübeck))
  3. ^ Otto Semper , Heinrich Dohrn and Eduard von Martens
  4. ↑ Herbert Weidner : From the history of the Natural Science Association in Hamburg , in: Negotiations of the Natural Science Association in Hamburg , N [eue] F [olge] Vol. 30, Hamburg 1988, p. 132, PDF
  5. ^ Helmut R. Leppien, Art into Life. Alfred Lichtwark's work for the Kunsthalle and Hamburg from 1886 - 1914, Hanover 1987, p. 27 f.
  6. ^ Abraham Breure: Annotated type catalog of the Orthalicoidea (Mollusca, Gastropoda) in the Museum für Naturkunde, Berlin, Zookeys, 279, 2013, p. 3, digitized

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personal data
SURNAME Strebel, Hermann Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German businessman, malacologist and ethnologist
DATE OF BIRTH January 1, 1834
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH November 6, 1914
Place of death Hamburg