Carl Theodor von Siebold

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Carl von Siebold

Carl Theodor Ernst von Siebold , often just Carl von Siebold (born February 16, 1804 in Würzburg , † April 7, 1885 in Munich ) was a German doctor and zoologist .

Life

Siebold comes from a family of doctors in Würzburg. His parents were Sophie von Siebold (née Schäffer ) and Adam Elias von Siebold , they moved from Würzburg to Berlin in 1816. His father was a professor of obstetrics at the University of Würzburg . The brother Eduard Caspar Jacob von Siebold (1801–1861) also became a gynecologist.

From 1823 to 1828 Carl von Siebold studied medicine at the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Berlin and the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen . In Göttingen he dealt extensively with medicine in addition to zoology. His dissertation was devoted to the metamorphosis of the salamanders .

He began as a district physician in the Masurian Heilsberg (1831) and in Königsberg i. Pr. (1834). As director of the midwifery school in Gdansk , he began to deal intensively with zoology again. Comparative anatomical and zoological studies on marine animals resulted in about 40 papers.

Through the mediation of Alexander von Humboldt received from Siebold 1840 a reputation as a professor of zoology, comparative anatomy and veterinary science at the Friedrich-Alexander University of Erlangen . In 1840 he became a member of the Leopoldina . In 1845 he moved to the chair of zoology and physiology at the Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg , and in 1850 as a physiology professor at the Silesian Friedrich Wilhelms University in Breslau . In 1853 he became full professor for comparative anatomy and zoology at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich and in the same year received the Bavarian Maximilian Order for Science and Art . In 1850 he was admitted to the Göttingen Academy of Sciences , 1853 to the Bavarian Academy of Sciences , 1854 to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences , 1855 to the Russian Academy of Sciences in Saint Petersburg , 1864 to the Royal Society of Edinburgh and 1867 to the Académie des sciences elected.

The daughter Antonie emerged from the marriage with Fanny Noeldechen . Siebold was the cousin of the botanist Philipp Franz von Siebold .

Scientific work

In addition to his university activities, Siebold was also head of the zoological-anatomical collections in Munich, today's Zoological State Collection Munich (ZSM). In his zoological research Siebold mainly dealt with the domestic freshwater fish. So Siebold has the nerds ( Zingel nerd , scientifically described), a flow-loving Danube perch in his book "freshwater fish in Central Europe". 1863 For the work on his book Siebold put together an extensive collection of local fish. Under his leadership, the zoological-anatomical collections developed from a "natural history cabinet" to a scientific research collection. Through his own research work, the fish collection in particular was substantially increased. In addition to an extensive collection of fish skeletons, Siebold built up a collection of anatomical fish specimens that he used for his university lectures.

Also under Siebold's direction, the comparative anatomical collection of the Anatomical Institute in Munich, which was housed in the Institute of Physiology, was transferred to the Wilhelminum and merged with the zoological collections of the ZSM. Some of these combined collections were accessible to the public in the natural history cabinet in the old Wilhelminum on Neuhauser Strasse in Munich, which was also headed by Siebold.

Siebold also contributed to the systematics and comparative anatomy of invertebrates. He recognized the protozoa as a separate group. With Hermann Friedrich Stannius (1808-1883) he wrote an extensive "Comparative Anatomy" (1854-1856).

He founded the taxon Arthropoda VON SIEBOLD in 1848 in the zoological systematics (and not already Pierre André Latreille ), in his textbook of comparative anatomy , Volume 1 (Invertebrates), 1848.

Taxa named after Siebold

The following taxa were named after him in honor of Siebolds:

Fonts

  • Observationes de Salamandris et Tritonibus . 1828.
  • Contributions to the natural history of invertebrates . Danzig 1839.
  • About the tapeworms and bladder worms . 1854
  • True parthenogenesis in butterflies and bees . 1856.
  • The freshwater fish of Central Europe. Engelmann, Leipzig 1863. Digitized and full text in the German text archive
  • Contributions to the parthenogenesis of the arthropods . 1871.
  • with Hermann Stannius: Textbook of the comparative anatomy of invertebrate animals , 2 volumes, Berlin 1846, 1848 (from Siebold is volume 1, invertebrate animals).

literature

Web links

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Dissertation: Observationes de Salamandris et Tritonibus , 1828
  2. ^ WU Eckart, C. Gradmann (Ed.): Doctors Lexicon From antiquity to the present . 3. Edition. Springer, Heidelberg 2006, ISBN 3-540-29584-4 .
  3. ^ Member entry of Carl Theodor von Siebold at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on October 19, 2015.
  4. ↑ Hans Körner "The Bavarian Maximilian Order for Science and Art and its Members" in: Zeitschrift für Bayerische Landesgeschichte, Vol. 47 (1984), pp. 299–398. Online at: http://periodika.digitale-sammlungen.de/zblg/kapitel/zblg47_kap28
  5. ↑ Holger Krahnke: The members of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen 1751-2001 (= Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Philological-Historical Class. Volume 3, Vol. 246 = Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Mathematical-Physical Class. Episode 3, vol. 50). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2001, ISBN 3-525-82516-1 , p. 226.
  6. ^ Foreign members of the Russian Academy of Sciences since 1724. Carl Theodor Ernst Siebold. Russian Academy of Sciences, accessed September 1, 2015 (Russian).
  7. ^ Fellows Directory. Biographical Index: Former RSE Fellows 1783–2002. (PDF file) Royal Society of Edinburgh, accessed April 7, 2020 .
  8. ^ List of members since 1666: Letter S. Académie des sciences, accessed on March 1, 2020 (French).
  9. ↑ Thomas A. Hegna, David A. Legg, Ole Sten Møller, Peter Van Roy, Rudy Lerosey-Aubril: The correct authorship of the taxon name Arthropoda, Arthopod Systematics and Phylogeny, Volume 71, 2013, 71-74, pdf
  10. ↑ Hans G. Hansson, Biographical Etymology of the Marine Organism Names, Tjärnö Marine-Biol. Lab., Sweden
personal data
SURNAME Siebold, Carl Theodor von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Siebold, Carl Theodor Ernst von (full name); Siebold, Carl von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German doctor and zoologist
DATE OF BIRTH February 16, 1804
PLACE OF BIRTH Wurzburg
DATE OF DEATH April 7, 1885
Place of death Munich