Hermann von Ihering

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Hermann Albrecht Friedrich von Ihering (born October 9, 1850 in Kiel , † February 24, 1930 in Gießen ) was a German doctor, zoologist and paleontologist .

Hermann von Ihering

Life

Hermann von Ihering was born in 1850 as the eldest son of the lawyer Rudolf von Jhering , who was then a professor in Kiel. The family later moved to Gießen and Hermann attended high school there. When Rudolf von Jhering was appointed to Vienna in 1868 , Hermann followed his father and began studying medicine. During the Franco-Prussian War he reported in Darmstadt in 1870 and performed his duties as a junior doctor in the hospital.

From Ihering studied medicine in Giessen - there he joined the fraternity Alemannia on - Leipzig , Berlin and Göttingen and received his doctorate in 1873 in Goettingen the Dr. med. He then studied zoology and geology and a PhD in 1876 for Dr. phil. During his studies he worked as an assistant at the Zoological Institute in Göttingen. After obtaining his doctorate , he qualified as a lecturer in zoology in Erlangen in 1876 and in Leipzig from 1878.

In 1880 Hermann von Ihering came to Brazil, where he would spend the next 30 years of his life. He first settled in the German colony of Taquara in the Brazilian southern province of Rio Grande do Sul east of São Leopoldo . From here he collected rare birds for the British Museum in London and for the ornithologist Hans Hermann Carl Ludwig von Berlepsch , bird eggs for the ornithologist Adolph Nehrkorn and arachnids for the zoologist and paleontologist Alexander Graf Keyserling . Ihering also practiced as a doctor for a year and published a German-language magazine in Porto Alegre . From 1883 Ihering worked as an explorer for the Brazilian National Museum in Rio de Janeiro , but lived in the province of Rio Grande do Sul . In 1887 Ihering went to São Paulo to take over the construction of the Paulistani State Museum ( Museu Paulista ), of which he was director from 1893 to 1916. He was dismissed from this post due to anti-German sentiments during the First World War .

In 1920 von Ihering returned to Germany. In 1921 he settled in Büdingen with his second wife Meta . Meta, a distant relative of Charlotte Kestner from Wetzlar, died in 1928. His son was the Brazilian biologist Rodolpho von Ihering (1883–1939).

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In addition to his ornithological collecting activity , Ihering was mainly known for his research on fossil snails and mussels . By comparing the fossil molluscs of South America with those of other southern continents, Ihering became one of the leading theorists of the connection between evolution and paleogeography at the turn of the century . He conducted extensive correspondence with Charles Darwin . The close relationship between different species of Africa and South America led to the belief that there must have been a connection between the continents. What can now be explained by the continental drift led to the land bridge hypothesis about land bridges between the continents that were now flooded. However, the connection between the fauna of the southern continents that Ihering pointed out was not universally recognized. Its systematic classifications were often misunderstood, and the age of the fossils was often not correctly estimated.

Initial descriptions

  • Trichomya Ihering, 1900, a genus of the mussel family (Mytilidae)
  • Trinchesia Ihering, 1879, a genus of the Nudibranchia (synonymous with Cuthona according to some authors ).

The following are named after him:

Fonts

  • Comparative anatomy of the nervous system and phylogeny of the molluscs . W. Engelmann, Leipzig 1877 doi: 10.5962 / bhl.title.13168
  • The vertebrate peripheral nervous system. Leipzig 1878.
  • To the knowledge of the sacoglosses. Hall 1892.
  • Archhelenis and Archinotis. Collected contributions to the history of the Neotropical region. Leipzig 1907. doi: 10.5962 / bhl.title.15767
  • The Linne generic names of the marine nudibranchs. News bulletin of the German Malacoological Society. Jhrg. 39, 1907, pp. 218–221 ( BHL , compact downloadable from archive.org ).
  • Phylogeny and system of the molluscs. Frankfurt am Main 1922. doi: 10.5962 / bhl.title.10350
  • The history of the Atlantic Ocean. Jena 1927.
  • The nephropneumatic in systematic and phylogenetic terms. Frankfurt am Main 1929.

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personal data
SURNAME Ihering, Hermann von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German zoologist and paleontologist
DATE OF BIRTH October 9, 1850
PLACE OF BIRTH Kiel
DATE OF DEATH February 24, 1930
Place of death to water