Karl Friedrich Wider
Karl Friedrich Wider was a 19th century German arachnologist . He was a pastor (Lutheran senior pastor) in Beerfelden .
Life
Little is known about him. His extensive collection of spiders and his manuscripts were donated to the Senckenberg Museum in 1833 , where Adolph Reuss edited them and published a catalog in 1834 (Zoological Miscelles: Arachniden, Museum Senckenbergianum 1, 1834, pp. 195-281). He dealt with spiders around 1825.
His work from 1834 contained 59 initial descriptions with drawings of German spider species, many of which are still valid today. Among other things, he made first descriptions of the spiders Coelotes terrestris from the family of Agelenidae , Crustulina guttata from the family of Theridiidae and from the family of Linyphiidae Erigone dentipalpis , Macrargus rufus , Neriene peltata , Tapinopa longidens , Tenuiphantes tenebricola and Walckenaeria antica .
His collection of several hundred spiders is the oldest part of the Senckenberg Museum's spider collection and is still preserved, as are his exceptionally good, detailed hand-colored drawings of spiders.
The spiders Allochernes wideri ( CL Koch , 1843) from the Chernetidae family and Ceratinella wideri ( Thorell , 1871) from the Linyphiidae family are named after him .
On May 1, 1828 he was promoted from second to first pastor in Beerfelden. He is still listed in the Court and State Handbook of the Grand Duchy of Hesse for the year 1841 as a pastor in Beerfelden.
literature
- Otto Kraus: Arachnology in Senckenberg: from Wider to Wiehle, Arachn. Mitt., 32, 2006, pp. 1–7, PDF (385 kB, German)
Individual evidence
- ^ Senckenberg Museum, arachnology
- ↑ Grand Ducal Hessian Government Gazette to the year 1828, Darmstadt, p. 172
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Against, Karl Friedrich |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German arachnologist and pastor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 18th century |
| DATE OF DEATH | 19th century |