Karl Michahelles

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Georg Christian Karl Wilhelm Michahelles (born May 5, 1807 in Nuremberg ; † August 15, 1834 in Nauplia , Greece ) was a German zoologist and doctor from Bavaria .

Michahelles toured large parts of Dalmatia and Croatia and acquired extensive knowledge of the birds in this area during this time. He died at the age of 27 in Greece , where he studied wildlife and practiced as a doctor. He described, among many other Mediterranean birds, the rock nuthatch ( Sitta neumayer ) and the masked wagtail ( Motacilla feldegg ), which some authors also consider as the subspecies Motacilla flava feldegg .

In addition, it is first to describe the genus pleurodeles ( Pleurodeles ) and the kind of the Spanish ribs pig ( Pleurodeles waltl ). In the field of herpetology , he also worked with Johann Georg Wagler , who also worked in Munich , whom he supported with some contributions in his illustrated volume Descriptiones et icones amphibiorum .

The Mediterranean gull ( Larus michahellis ) was named after him by Johann Friedrich Naumann (1780–1857), taking the name from Christoph Feldegg (1780–1845).

“Another (perhaps the same) species lives, according to Feldegg (see Isis. Year 1832, XS 1107.) on the Adriatic Sea, especially on the coast of Dalmatia ; he calls her L. Michahellis. "

At this point in time, Naumann could not judge whether the new species corresponded to Feldegg's type specimen . So he wrote:

"I only saw them briefly in the KK Naturalienkabinette in Vienna, and I couldn't compare them to the one in the Berlin Museum in order to say with certainty whether both are identical."

Feldegg in turn justified the naming as follows:

“As far as I was able to find out, however, it has not yet been described anywhere, so I would like to propose, out of consideration for the great merits of Doctor Michahelles for the natural history of Dalmatia, that this beautiful Meve be given his name, under which I have also been calling it for some Months, to distinguish it from their northern relatives, in my collection. "

The Mainz notary and ornithologist Carl Friedrich Bruch (1789–1857) named it after Feldegg Glaucus michahellesii . In a review of the species, Johann Heinrich Blasius (1809–1870) refuted that this was a new species for science, but rather the herring gull ( Larus argentatus ) Pontoppidan , 1763, which is relatively common in Dalmatia .

During his studies he became a member of the Erlangen fraternity in the winter semester of 1825/26 .

Works

  • About some Dalmatian vertebrates that also occur in western Asia . In: Isis von Oken . 1830, p. 809-820 ( online [accessed Aug. 26, 2011]).
  • The Malo di Scarlievo in historical and pathological terms . JM Steinischen Buchhandlung, Nuremberg 1832 ( online [accessed on August 26, 2011]).
  • New southern European amphibians. In: Isis von Oken , XXIII, Leipzig 1830, pp. 189-195, pp. 806-809

literature

  • August Hirsch, Ernst Julius Gurlt, Albrecht Wernich, Wilhelm Haberling, Franz Hübotter , Hermann Vierordt: Biographical lexicon of outstanding doctors of all times and peoples . tape 4 . Urban & Schwarzenberg, Munich 1962.
  • Carl Friedrich Bruch: Monographic overview of the genus Larus Lin. In: Journal of Ornithology . tape 1 , no. 2 , 1953, p. 96-108 ( online [accessed August 26, 2011]).
  • Johann Heinrich Blasius: Supplement No. 13 Ornithological Remarks . In: Naumannia . tape 1 , 1856, p. 475-484 ( online [accessed Aug. 26, 2011]).
  • Christoph Feldegg in Carl Friedrich Bruch: Ornithological Mittheilungen . In: Isis . 1832, p. 1105–1111 ( online [accessed August 26, 2011]).
  • Johann Friedrich Naumann: natural history of the birds of Germany: designed according to their own experiences . tape 10 . Ernst Fleischer, Leipzig 1840 ( online [accessed August 26, 2011]).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Josef F. Schmidtler: The roots of a Bavarian herpetofaunistics in the 18th and early 19th century . Zeitschrift für Feldherpetologie, 14, pp. 93–119, 2007, p. 115
  2. ↑ a b Johann Andreas Naumann, p. 382
  3. ↑ Christoph Feldegg, p. 1108
  4. ↑ Carl Friedrich Bruch, p. 101
  5. ^ Johann Heinrich Blasius, p. 483f
  6. ↑ Ernst Höhne: The Bubenreuther. History of a German fraternity. II., Erlangen 1936, p. 102.
personal data
SURNAME Michahelles, Karl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Michahelles, Georg Christian Karl Wilhelm (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German zoologist and doctor
DATE OF BIRTH May 5, 1807
PLACE OF BIRTH Nuremberg
DATE OF DEATH August 15, 1834
Place of death Nauplia , Greece