Karl Theodor Menke

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Karl Theodor Menke (born September 13, 1791 in Bremen , † 1861 in Bad Pyrmont ) was a German malacologist and spa doctor in Bad Pyrmont.

Life

Menke studied medicine in Göttingen (with his doctorate in 1814) before becoming a doctor at the Bad Pyrmont spa. He also published about the geology and mineral springs of Bad Pyrmont and about the Externsteine .

He belonged to a group of German malacologists, which also included the Kassel doctor Ludwig Georg Karl Pfeiffer and the Kassel banker Carl Jonas Pfeiffer , as well as Stephan Clessin .

In 1844 he founded the Zeitschrift für Malakozoologie, which he published from the third volume (1846) with Ludwig Georg Karl Pfeiffer (at the same time the place of publication was moved from Hanover to Kassel). In 1848 he published a bibliography on malacology in it. From 1854 the magazine was called Malakozoologische Blätter.

Honors

In 1831 he was elected a member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina .

Fonts

  • Pyrmont and its surroundings, with particular reference to its mineral springs ... With a topographical-petrographic chart. Uslar 1818, 1840
  • Location, origin, name, description, antiquity, myth and history of the Externsteine. 1824
  • Attempt at a closer geological, geognostic and oryctognostic discussion of the Principality of Pyrmont. 1825
  • Synopsis methodica Molluscorum generum omnium et specierum earum, quae in Museo Menkeano adservantur. 1828, Bad Pyrmont: Gelpke, Archive
  • with Johann Georg Christian Lehmann : Molluscorum Novae Hollandiae specimen. 1843
  • The healing powers of the Pyrmont steel water. 1835

literature

  • JH Jungbluth: Molluscology - yesterday, today, tomorrow. In: Erwin Beck: Fascination Life Sciences. Wiley-VCH 2002

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Member entry by Carl Theodor Menke at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on November 25, 2015.
personal data
SURNAME Menke, Karl Theodor
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German doctor and malacologist
DATE OF BIRTH September 13, 1791
PLACE OF BIRTH Bremen
DATE OF DEATH 1861
Place of death Bad Pyrmont