Karl Jordan (zoologist)

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Heinrich Ernst Karl Jordan (also known as KJ ) (born December 7, 1861 in Almstedt , † January 12, 1959 in Tring , Hertfordshire , England ) was a German and English entomologist .

Karl Jordan as a student in Göttingen in 1884
Karl Jordan

Live and act

Jordan was born in Almstedt near Hildesheim in the Kingdom of Hanover in 1861 as the son of a farming family. After graduating from high school Andreanum in Hildesheim, which he attended from 1876 to 1882, he studied botany and zoology at the Georg-August University in Göttingen . He entered the 1882 conjunction and later fraternity Holzminda one. After successfully completing his doctorate in 1886, he volunteered for a year of military service and was an assistant teacher at the Progymnasium in Hann. Münden and lecturer at the Hann. Münden , in 1892 accepted a teaching position for mathematics and natural sciences at the Agricultural School in Hildesheim and in 1893, at the invitation of Ernst Hartert, went to the Walter Rothschild Museum in Tring as curator , where he specialized in beetles , butterflies and fleas and the The task was to systematize the insect collection. He later became director of the museum. Jordan has published more than 400 publications. Together with Charles and Walter Rothschild he himself described 2,575 new species , in cooperation with the Rothschilds another 851. Among others: Arixenia esau , Sphinx maurorum , Battus polydamas antiquus .

An owl butterfly named after Karl Jordan : Eudocima jordani

Together with Charles Rothschild, he discovered the transmission of the plague from rats to humans through the rat flea . He also developed a system for the nomenclature of veins and cells in insect wings , the Rothschild-Jordan system , and described what is now called the Jordanian organ .

Jordan organized the first International Entomological Congress in 1910. He also chaired the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature . He later became honorary president for life in both organizations . He became a member of the Royal Society in 1932 and President of the Entomological Society of London from 1929 to 1930 . In 1958 he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences .

From 1894 to 1939 he was the first and only editor of the magazine Novitates zoologicae . He was also a member of the Vienna Entomological Society and, since 1931, a corresponding member of the Association for Natural Scientific Local Research in Hamburg .

From 1911 he was a naturalized British citizen. Jordan married Minna Brüning in 1891, with whom he had two daughters. He died in England in 1959.

Honors

The genus Jordanita and several species were named after Jordan :

A moth of the toothed spinner family named after Karl Jordan : Proutiella jordani
An owl butterfly named after Karl Jordan : Eudocima jordani
Jordanita : A genus of rams named after Karl Jordan

The Karl Jordan Medal

The Lepidopterists' Society has awarded the Karl Jordan Medal for lepidopterology ( German : Karl Jordan Medal ) at irregular intervals since 1973 . It is one of the highest honors in the field of entomology.

It was awarded to:

Fonts (selection)

  • The butterfly fauna of Göttingen . Alfeld 1885, dissertation.
  • The butterfly fauna of north-west Germany, especially the lepidopterological conditions in the area around Göttingen. Jena 1886.
  • About two nomenclature issues related to entomology. In: Seventh International Congress of Entomology. (Vol. 1), Berlin, published May 1939, pp. 583-587. pdf

literature

  • Hampton Wildman Parker : Dr. Karl Jordans expedition to South-West Africa and Angola: Herpetological collections. In: Novitates Zoologicae. Vol. 40, Tring 1936, pp. 115-146. Online version
  • Communications from the German Entomological Society. 1955, p. 23.
  • Obituary in the Times January 14, 1959.
  • Obituary in: Journal of the Vienna Entomological Society. 44th year 1959, p. 132. Online version (PDF; 278 kB)
  • ND Riley: Heinrich Ernst Karl Jordan. 1861-1959. In: Biographical memoirs of fellows of the Royal Society. Volume 6, 1960 pp. 107-133.
  • John L. Capinera: Encyclopedia of entomology. Verlag Springer Netherlands, 2nd ed., 2008, p. 2065. ISBN 1-4020-6242-7

Web links

Commons : Karl Jordan  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ ND Riley: Heinrich Ernst Karl Jordan. 1861-1959. In: Biographical memoirs of fellows of the Royal Society. Volume 6, 1960 p. 107.
  2. ^ Wilhelm Ebel : The register of the Georg-August-Universität zu Göttingen 1837-1900. Hildesheim 1974. (No. 60077, matriculated on April 25, 1882)
  3. ^ Ernst Elsheimer (ed.): Directory of the old fraternity members according to the status of the winter semester 1927/28. Frankfurt am Main 1928, p. 233.
  4. ^ Directory of the members of the Austrian Entomologists Association. pdf
  5. ↑ Lee D. Miller: Nomenclature of Wing Veins and Cells. In: Journal of Research on the Lepidoptera. 8 (2): 37-48, 1969 (1970), pp. 40-43. pdf ( Memento of the original from March 24, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / lepidopteraresearchfoundation.org
  6. ^ Max Whitten: History on International / Congresses of Entomology. (August 2010)
  7. ^ Negotiations of the Association for Natural Scientific Local Research in Hamburg. Hamburg 1958, pp. Ii and vii f.
  8. ^ Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales (Spain). Sección de Entomología, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (Spain). Instituto Español de Entomología, Insituto "José de Acosta.": EOS year 1937, p. 46.
  9. ↑ a b Hampton Wildman Parker: Dr. Karl Jordans expedition to South-West Africa and Angola: Herpetological collections. In: Novitates Zoologicae. Vol. 40, Tring 1936, pp. 115-146.
  10. ↑ a b Pacific University Bulletin. Vol 37, March 1940, No. 1.
  11. ^ Pacific University Bulletin. Vol 37, April 1940, No. 2.
  12. ↑ Also known as: Ophideres jordani and Jordan's Fruit Piercing Moth . Named by William Jacob Holland . Evidence: Archived copy ( memento of the original from April 4, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) 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 / lepidoptera.butterflyhouse.com.au
  13. ↑ http://www.afromoths.net/species/show/48794  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.afromoths.net  
  14. ↑ http://www.afromoths.net/species/show/61554  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.afromoths.net  
  15. ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of the original dated May 7, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) 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. and Jacqueline Y. Miller: Nominations for the Karl Jordan Medal. In: News of the Lepidopterists' Society. Autumn 2007, Vol. 49 No. 3 p. 77. pdf ( Memento of the original from March 6, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) 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.csiro.au @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.lepsoc.org
personal data
SURNAME Jordan, Karl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Jordan, Heinrich Ernst Karl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German and English entomologist
DATE OF BIRTH December 7, 1861
PLACE OF BIRTH Almstedt
DATE OF DEATH January 12, 1959
Place of death Tring , Hertfordshire, England