Julius Vosseler

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Julius Vosseler (born December 16, 1861 in Freudenthal near Besigheim , † September 18, 1933 in Hamburg ) was a German zoologist and zoo director.

Life

Julius Vosseler was born on December 16, 1861 in Freudenthal near Besigheim (Württemberg). In 1867 he moved with his parents to Stuttgart , where he was soon one of the frequent visitors to Gustav Werner's zoo and later to the Nill zoo . Werner gave the then six-year-old boy an unforgettable experience by putting a 14-day-old lion on his arm.

After studying in Stuttgart with Gustav Jäger and in Tübingen with Wilhelm Pfeffer , Friedrich August von Quenstedt and Theodor Eimer , Vosseler completed his doctorate on copepods with the latter in 1885 and remained as an assistant in his institute until 1892. On March 3, 1893, he completed his habilitation in zoology in Stuttgart, where Vosseler worked at the Royal Natural History Cabinet. During this time he carried out research trips to Algeria, Tunisia and Asia Minor. In 1903 Vosseler was elected a member of the Leopoldina and followed a call from the Prussian government to the Biological-Agricultural Institute in Amani in what was then the colony of German East Africa . There he worked mainly entomologically on tropical plant protection until 1908 and shared his home with porcupines, squirrels, meerkats and pangolins, among others.

In 1909 Vosseler succeeded Heinrich Bolau as the fourth director of the Hamburg Zoological Garden . Despite excellent zoological successes, it was not granted to him to renovate the business, which was financially completely self-sufficient and therefore ailing, even in the most difficult times. In 1927 Vosseler retired. The Hamburg Zoological Garden closed its doors for the last time in 1931, after the attempt to continue as a bird park had also failed.

After severe suffering, Julius Vosseler died on September 18, 1933.

Act

Julius Vosseler's zoological knowledge in connection with research talent resulted in numerous publications. As a skilled animal gardener, he also achieved outstanding results. For the first time, he managed to keep manatees for 13 years, and the chimpanzees he brought over the First World War were the only great apes still alive in Germany in 1919.

Honors

In 1913, the zoologist Fritz Nieden named a subspecies of an East African two-horned chameleon , of which Vosseler had collected specimens, after him: Chamaeleon fischeri vosseleri Nieden, 1913. In 1948 a street in Hamburg was named after Julius Vosseler.

Fonts (selection)

  • The copepods living in the wild in Württemberg and the surrounding area. Dissertation, University of Tübingen. In: Annual books of the Association for Patriotic Natural History in Württemberg. 1886, pp. 167–204 ( Archives )
  • Studies on smooth and imperfectly striated muscles of arthropods. Laupp, Tübingen, 1891.
  • with Hermann August Krauss : Contributions to the Orthopter Fauna of Orans (West Algeria). (= Messages from the Royal Natural History Cabinet in Stuttgart.) In: Zoological yearbooks. Department for systematics. , Volume 9, 1896, pp. 515–556, plate 7 ( BHL )
  • The amphipods of the plankton expedition: I. Part. Hyperiidea 1. (= results of the plankton expedition of the Humboldt Foundation. Volume II) Lipsius & Tischer, Kiel and Leipzig 1901. ( Archive )
  • Care and keeping of manatees (Trichechus) and contributions to their biology. In: Pallasia. Volume 2, 1924/1925, pp. 58-67, 113-133, 167-180, 213-230.
  • For the reproduction of the kangaroo. In: The Zoological Garden (NF). Volume 3, 1930, pp. 1-11.

literature

  • K. Braun and Georg Grimpe: Personal News . Hamburg. In: The Zoological Garden (NF). Volume 6, 1933, p. 283.
  • Georg Grimpe: Julius Vosseler for his 70th birthday. In: The Zoological Garden (NF). Volume 4, 1931, pp. 313-317.
  • Martin Otto: Julius Vosseler. In: Maria Magdalena Rückert (Ed.): Württembergische biographies including Hohenzollern personalities. Volume III. On behalf of the Commission for Historical Regional Studies in Baden-Württemberg. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 2017, ISBN 978-3-17-033572-1 , pp. 234-237.
  • Julius Vosseler: On the history of the oldest German zoos. In: The Zoological Garden (NF). Volume 3, 1930, pp. 207-213.

Web links

Wikisource: Julius Vosseler  - Sources and full texts

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Grimpe (1931), p. 313
  2. ↑ Vosseler (1930), p. 211
  3. ↑ a b c d Grimpe (1931), p. 314
  4. ↑ Julius Vosseler's membership entry at the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina , accessed on October 12, 2012.
  5. ↑ Grimpe (1931); P. 314 f
  6. ↑ Grimpe (1931); P. 315
  7. ↑ a b c d Braun & Grimpe (1933)
  8. ↑ Grimpe (1931), p. 317
  9. ↑ Grimpe (1931), p. 316
  10. ↑ Chamaeleon fischeri vosseleri. Retrieved August 26, 2012 .
  11. ↑ Hamburg City Wiki. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on October 8, 2008 ; Retrieved August 26, 2012 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.hamburgwiki.de
personal data
SURNAME Vosseler, Julius
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German zoologist and zoo director
DATE OF BIRTH December 16, 1861
PLACE OF BIRTH Freudental
DATE OF DEATH September 18, 1933
Place of death Hamburg