Julius Leopold Theodor Friedrich Zincken

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Julius Leopold Theodor Friedrich Zincken (called Sommer) (born April 15, 1770 in Braunschweig ; † February 8, 1856 ibid) was a doctor of medicine, both dentist and human medicine, Duke Braunschweigischer Hofmedicus and entomologist .

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Julius Leopold Theodor Friedrich Zincken was the only son from the first marriage of the auditor and Fiskals in the service of the Brunswick Duke Carl Friedrich Wilhelm Zincken with Sophie born. Schläger, daughter of the Braunschweig city surgeon. His father participated as general auditor with the Brunswick troops from 1776 to 1781 in the fight against the American Revolutionpart; after his return the marriage was divorced and Sophie married in February 1782 the Braunschweigischer Hofmedicus and director of the ducal hospital, Hofrat Johann Christoph Sommer (1740-1802). During his studies on April 13, 1791, Zincken was adopted by his stepfather; this gave him the addition of "called summer".

Zincken, then Zincken called summer, studied medicine at the University in Göttingen and received his doctorate 1794th As Duke Braunschweigischer Hofmedicus he corresponded with well-known scientists throughout Europe and was a member of the Society of Friends of Natural Sciences in Berlin , the Grand Ducal Mineralogical Society of Jena and other natural research societies in Halle, Jena , Emden and Edinburgh .

On November 28, 1824 (matriculation no. 1292) he was elected a member of the Leopoldina with the surname Brokhausen .

Zincken, called Sommer, achieved lasting things primarily as an entomologist. Numerous names of insect species go back to him, such as that of the gray-bodied lichen bear ( Eilema lurideola ).

Between 1813 and 1821 Zincken called Sommer published the magazine of entomology together with Ernst Friedrich Germar .

The mathematician and composer Hans Sommer (1837-1922) emerged from the marriage of his son Otto Gustav (* March 28, 1809; † January 9, 1840) with Nanny Langenheim, daughter of the Braunschweig lawyer and notary Friedrich Wilhelm Langenheim .

Fonts (selection)

  • Instructions on silk making in general and especially with regard to northern Germany , based on the latest improvements to the same and based on our own experience and experiments carried out on the natural history of the silk moth itself. ..., Braunschweig, Meyer 1829
  • Contribution to the insect fauna of Java . First division. (published in: Nova Acta Leopoldina Vol. 15, 1.), Bonn, 1831
  • Instructions for garden owners and country folk how they must proceed in every month of the year in order to protect fruit and garden fruits in their gardens from destruction by harmful insects as safely and easily as possible ..., Braunschweig, Meyer 1832

Web links

Wikisource: Magazine of Entomology  - Sources and full texts

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Johann Daniel Ferdinand Neigebaur : History of the Imperial Leopoldino-Carolinian German Academy of Natural Scientists during the second century of its existence. Friedrich Frommann, Jena 1860, p. 257
personal data
SURNAME Zincken, Julius Leopold Theodor Friedrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Zincken called Sommer, Julius Leopold Theodor Friedrich; Zincken called Sommer, Johann Leopold Theodor Friedrich; Tines called summer; JLTF Zincken called summer
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German doctor and entomologist
DATE OF BIRTH April 15, 1770
PLACE OF BIRTH Braunschweig
DATE OF DEATH February 8, 1856
Place of death Braunschweig