Ludwig Rütimeyer

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Karl Ludwig Rütimeyer

Karl Ludwig Rütimeyer (born February 26, 1825 in Biglen , † November 25, 1895 in Basel , legal resident in Bern and from 1867 in Basel) was a Swiss physician and anatomist as well as a zoologist , geologist and paleontologist .

Life

Ludwig Rütimeyer's father Albrecht was a pastor in the Emmental , his mother a née Küpfer. He was the fifth of eight children. Rütimeyer attended high school in Bern from 1838. In 1843 he began studying theology at the University of Bern and after four semesters switched to medicine, which he completed in 1850 with the state examination. In 1848 he presented the results of his geological studies of the mountains between Lake Thun and Emme at the 33rd meeting of the Swiss Natural Research Society in Solothurn. 1850 did his doctorate with a study on the Swiss nummulite terrain. In 1848 he was President, then Central President of the Bern section of the Swiss Zofinger Association .

After studying in Paris (with recommendations from his teacher Bernhard Studer ), London and Leiden, as well as stays in southern Italy and Sicily , he completed his habilitation in Bern in 1854. In 1853 he received a call as associate professor for comparative anatomy at the University of Bern and also taught natural sciences at the secondary and industrial school there. In 1855 he got a full professorship at the University of Basel , where he taught until 1894. In 1865 he was rector of the university. At the same time as his work at Basel University, he was head of the natural science institutions, and from 1883 also head of the natural history collection in the museum. From 1877 to 1883 Rütimeyer traveled to Florence, Lyon, Toulouse, Paris and London, where he met Charles Darwin .

Rütimeyer had been married to Laura Fankhauser from Burgdorf , the sister of his sister-in-law , since 1855 . The couple had a son, (Ludwig) Leopold Rütimeyer , who among others was Ludwig Rütimeyer. Published letters and diary sheets.

Act

Rütimeyer researched the prehistoric fauna of Switzerland, but provided extensive investigations into the origin of certain groups of mammals . In his attempt at a natural history of the cattle in its relationship to ruminants in general from 1867, he laid the foundation for a knowledge of the relationships that existed between today's and fossil ruminants and ungulates . He examined the animal remains of the pile dwellings of the Swiss lakes discovered in 1850, the first work on this appeared in 1860. His focus was on the presentation of the changes in animals since that time. Among other things, based on these findings, he also described the peat dog as Canis familiaris palustris Rütimeyer. At the meetings of the Natural Research Society in Basel , of which he was president from 1860 to 1862, he gave 66 lectures and published 36 articles in their negotiations. On April 19, 1863 he was one of the 35 founding members of the Swiss Alpine Club (SAC), of which he was Vice President in 1864 and from 1870 to 1872. In addition, he was governor, chairman, editor of the 1864 yearbook and honorary member of the section and association for the SAC.

Honors

  • The Rütimeyerstrasse and Rütimeyerplatz in Basel were named in his honor .

Fonts

  • About living and fossil pigs . 1857 ( archives )
  • Contributions to the knowledge of fossil horses , 1863 and 1878 online
  • The fauna of the stilt houses in Switzerland. Studies on the history of the wild and domestic mammals of central Europe . Bahnmaier (C. Detloff), Basel 1861 ( archive )
  • with Wilhelm His : Crania helvetica. Collection of Swiss skull shapes . H. Georg, Basel and Geneva 1864 ( Google Books )
  • About the origin of our animal world. A zoographic sketch . H. Georg, Basel and Geneva 1864 ( Google Books )
  • The limits of the animal world. A reflection on Darwin's teaching . Schweighauser, Basel 1868 ( Google Books )
  • About valley and lake formation. Contributions to the understanding of the surface of Switzerland . Schweighauser, Basel 1869 ( dedicated to Peter Merian ) ( Google Books )
  • The fossil turtles of Solothurn and the rest of the Jura formation . Zürcher and Furrer, Zurich 1873 ( Google Books )
  • About the construction of the shell and skull in living and fossil turtles . Schweighauserische Verlagsbuchhandlung, Basel 1873 ( Google Books )
  • The changes in the animal world in Switzerland since the human presence . Schweighauserische Verlagsbuchhandlung, Basel 1875 ( archive )
  • Further contributions to the assessment of horses of the quaternary epoch . Zürcher and Furrer, Zurich 1875 ( Google Books )
  • Over the Plioces and the Ice Age on both sides of the Alps. A contribution to the history of the animal world in Italy since the tertiary period . H. Georg, Basel-Geneva-Lyon 1876 ( Google Books )
  • The cattle of the tertiary epoch together with preliminary studies for a natural history of the antelope . Zürcher and Furrer, 1877 & 1878 ( archive )
  • Contributions to a natural history of the deer . In: Treatises of the Swiss Paleontological Society, Vol. 7, 1880; Vol. 8, 1881 ( Archives ); Vol. 10, 1883

literature

  • Gerold Meyer von Knonau :  Rütimeyer, Karl Ludwig . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 53, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1907, pp. 654-657.
  • Leopold Rütimeyer (Ed.): Ludwig Rütimeyer. Letters and diary sheets. Huber & Co., Frauenfeld 1906 ( archive )
  • C. Schmidt : Ludwig Rütimeyer born February 26, 1825, died November 25, 1895 . In: Negotiations of Switzerland. Natural Research Society. 78th annual meeting. 8th, 9th, 10th and 11th September 1895 in Zermatt. Sitten Buchdruckerei Kleindienst & Schmid 1896. pp. 213–256 (with list of publications, online at archive.org)
  • Hans Georg Stehlin (Ed.): L. Rütimeyer. Collected small writings of general content from the field of natural science. Along with an autobiographical sketch. Volume I Autobiography. Zoological writings . Georg & Cie., Basel 1898 ( archive )
  • Hans Georg Stehlin (Ed.): L. Rütimeyer. Collected small writings of general content from the field of natural science. Along with an autobiographical sketch. Volume II Geographical Writings, Necrologe, List of Publications . Georg & Cie., Basel 1898 ( archive )

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e Schmidt Verh. SNG 1886. s. literature
  2. ↑ a b c d Thomas Schmid, Daniel Anker, et al .: Helvetia Club - 150 years of the Swiss Alpine Club SAC . Ed .: Daniel Anker. SAC Verlag, Bern 2013, ISBN 978-3-85902-362-8 , pp. 65 .
  3. ^ University of Basel: Rectors of the University of Basel . Retrieved September 16, 2012.
  4. ^ Member entry of Ludwig Rütimeyer at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on August 15, 2017.
  5. ^ Foreign members of the Russian Academy of Sciences since 1724. Karl Ludwig Rütimeyer. Russian Academy of Sciences, accessed October 21, 2015 (Russian).
personal data
SURNAME Rütimeyer, Ludwig
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Rütimeyer, Karl Ludwig (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss zoologist, geologist, anatomist and paleontologist
DATE OF BIRTH February 26, 1825
PLACE OF BIRTH Biglen , Bern, Switzerland
DATE OF DEATH November 25, 1895
Place of death Basel