Johann Gottlieb Otto Tepper
Johann Gottlieb Otto Tepper (born April 9, 1841 in Neutomischel , Kingdom of Prussia ; died February 16, 1923 in Norwood (South Australia) ) was a German- Australian entomologist .
Life
Johann Gottlieb Otto Tepper was the eldest son of Johann Christoph Tepper and Johanne Wilhelmine Protsch. The large family emigrated for political and religious reasons to Australia in March 1847, where they settled in Lyndoch in South Australia .
Tepper attended school in Hoffnungsthal and worked in agriculture from the age of 14. In 1865 he received Australian citizenship in Tanunda .
Tepper was trained as a teacher by the school reformer Carl Mücke , received his first teaching position in New Mecklenburg in the Barossa Valley in 1867 and married Jane Brock. After that he changed jobs frequently.
Tepper published from 1873 a number of scientific articles on the flora in the area around Nuriootpa and Ardrossan and in 1895 for the Botanische Centralblatt, which is published in Germany, the article Die Flora von Clarendon and the surrounding area (South Australia) . In 1883 he was hired as a collector for the natural history collection of the South Australian Museum and was its librarian, numismatist and entomologist from 1888 to 1911 . He published his treatises in Garden and Field and in the Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia , of which he became a member in 1878, and in 1912 he received its honorary membership.
He was a co-founder of the Field Naturalists Society of South Australia . With Ralph Tate he campaigned for the establishment of the Flinders Chase National Park on Kangaroo Island .
In 1879 he was elected a Fellow of the Linnean Society of London and was a member of the short-lived Society of Science, Letters and Art , London. He was a member of other scientific societies, including the American Association for the Advancement of Science .
Tepper described 164 insect species, including the grasshopper Chlorobalius leucoviridis and Ephippitythoidea sparsa . Some insects were named after him, including Apteronomus tepperi , Pseudoliara tepperi and Conoderus tepperi . He also described various plants and fungi, such as Dodonaea tepperi , Helichrysum tepperi and, endemic to the kangaroo island, Stylidium tepperianum . Its botanical author abbreviation is Tepper .
Fonts (selection)
- JGO Tepper: The rainfall problem and the causes of rain failure . 1915
literature
- Darrell N. Kraehenbuehl: Tepper, Johann Gottlieb Otto (1841-1923) , in: Australian Dictionary of Biography (AuDB). There a portrait photo from 1898, probably in the public domain
Web links
- Literature by and about Johann Gottlieb Otto Tepper in the bibliographic database WorldCat
- Johann Gottlieb Otto - JGO - Tepper - A life as a naturalist , at Tomischler Hauland, January 25, 2011
- Author entry and list of the described plant names for Johann Gottlieb Otto Tepper at the IPNI (without mushrooms)
Individual evidence
- ↑ species Chlorobalius leucoviridis Tepper, 1896 , in: orthoptera
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Tepper, Johann Gottlieb Otto |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German-Australian entomologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 9, 1841 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Neutomischel , Kingdom of Prussia |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 16, 1923 |
| Place of death | Norwood (South Australia) |