Johannes Gistel

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Johannes Gistel

Johannes Nepomuk Franz Xaver Gistel , also Gistl, (born August 11, 1809 in Munich ; † 1873 ) was a German zoologist .

Life

Gistel had a bachelor's degree in medicine, a master's degree, and was Dr. phil. (Doctorate in Munich 1829 in zoology). He was a teacher of natural history and geography in Munich (with the title of professor) and a museum curator.

He dealt with entomology , but also other animal groups such as mammals, reptiles, amphibians and mollusks. He was editor of the magazine Faunus (magazine for zoology and comparative anatomy, from 1832). Besides Faunus, he published a lot in Isis by Lorenz Oken .

Gistel also used the pseudonym G. Tilesius (partly an anagram of his name).

He gave the name of the seal genus Hydrurga , the salamander genus Hydromantes , the Sicilian wall lizard ( Podarcis wagleriana ), the beetle subfamily Sitonini and the beetle genus Hiperantha . Introduced by him murine genera Cletrionomys ( Rötelmäuse ) and Clonomys ( Sicista ) did not follow, as others had beaten him to it. Gistel was primarily an entomologist; his work on mice, for example, was considered inaccurate.

His collection is in the Zoological State Collection in Munich. He received the royal Prussian great gold medal for art and science and was a member of many scientific societies such as the Reunion of German naturalists and doctors.

Gistel also published a biography of General Theodor von Hallberg-Broich (1863) and one of Carl von Linné . He also published poems, a travelogue through southern Germany and northern Italy and address books by entomologists, as well as in 1856 a Latest Geography and Statistics of the Kingdom of Bavaria .

Fonts

  • Enumeratis Coeleopterum Agri Monacensis, Munich: Jaquet 1829 (description of the beetles from the area around Munich, at the same time his dissertation in Munich)
  • Journey through Southern Germany and Northern Italy, Volume 1, 1834
  • The now living entomologists, kerff friends and kerf collectors of Europe and the rest of the continents, Munich: Jacquet 1834
  • Lexicon of the entomological world, the carcinological and arachnological. Address book of living entomologists and entomophiles etc .; the carcinologists and arachnologists together with their writings, then the natural scientist academies and their negotiations, the zoological ephemeris, bibliographies, biographies and real-world dictionaries, the public and private collections of the world, the writings on the collection and storage of articulated animals, with double Registers and a list of all entomological, carcinological and arachnological writers from Aristotle to the present day, Stuttgart, Schweizerbart, 1846
  • Natural history of the animal kingdom for higher schools. Stuttgart, 1848
  • Vacuna or the secrets from the organic and lifeless world. Unprinted original collection of mostly still living and deceased scholars from the field of all natural sciences, medicine, literary history, forestry and hunting, economics, history, biography and the fine arts, Straubing: Schorner, 2 volumes 1857
  • Editor: The naturalists this and that side of the oceans. Travel and correspondence manual for geologists, geologists, and mineralogists, botanists, zoologists ..., Straubing, 1856
  • The mysteries of the European insect world. A secret key for collectors of all insect orders and statuses regarding catch, whereabouts, apartment, time of day and season, etc., Kempten 1856
  • Plenoma on the mysteries of the European insect world with a systematic list of butterflies and beetles in Europe, Straubing, 1856
  • System of the German cataracts, Straubing 1857
  • Carolus Linnaeus. A picture of life, Frankfurt: Sauerländer 1873, online
Volumes of poetry
  • Harp tones of devotion and love
  • Selam. Homage seal 1833
  • Alpine roses 1834

literature

  • Embrik Strand : Johannes Gistel and his zoological writings. A sheet from the history of zoology . In: Archives for Natural History (=  A ). tape 83 , no. 11 , 1917, pp. 124-149 ( biodiversitylibrary.org ).
  • Harald Pieper : Johannes Gistel and research into mice in Bavaria. Bonn Zoologist Contributions, 46, 1996, 283-285, PDF
  • Josef Jelinek, Paolo Audisio: The Kateretidae, Nitidulidae and Monotomidae (Coleoptera: Cucujoidea) described by Gistel (1856, 1857): new synonymies and type designations. Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae, Volume 49, 2009, pp. 225-238
  • Adolphe von Schaden: Scholars Munich in 1834; or directory of several writers currently living in Bavaria's capital and their works. 1834 ( limited preview in Google Book search).

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References and comments

  1. ↑ Sometimes 1874 is given as the year of death
  2. ↑ Information from the title page of his book The Natural Scientists This and Beyond the Oceans 1856
  3. ↑ Jan Klein, Norman Klein Solitude of a Humble Genius - Gregor Johann Mendel , Springer 2013, p. 315, blame the shortcomings in his textbook on zoology from 1848 for Gregor Mendel's poor performance in his teaching exams, which Mendel addresses with the book prepared by Gistel.
  4. ↑ title page
  5. ↑ PDF
personal data
SURNAME Gistel, Johannes
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Gistel, Johannes Nepomuk Franz Xaver; Gistl, Johannes; Tilesius, G.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German zoologist
DATE OF BIRTH August 11, 1809
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich
DATE OF DEATH 1873