Paul Gusmann

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Paul Gusmann as a student in Jena in 1888

Richard Paul Gusmann (wrongly also Gussmann ; born October 1, 1866 in Wandsbek ; † November 1, 1941 in Schlutup near Lübeck ) was a German doctor, bryologist and entomologist .

Live and act

Gusmann was born in 1866 in Wandsbek, then Prussia, and after graduating from high school in Wandsbek he studied medicine at the universities of Jena , Halle (Saale) and Leipzig . In Jena he was in 1886 in connection Salia active but which he left in 1895 and again in the connection and subsequent fraternity Holzminda in Göttingen occurred. After completing his doctorate at the University of Leipzig, he first worked in hospitals in Hamburg, then from 1897 in Schlutup near Lübeck in a rural practice.

In his spare time he devoted himself almost exclusively to exploring nature, in particular he collected and certain mosses from the Lubeck area - be composed of 376 species Moss - Herbarium , which he had bequeathed to the Museum of Natural History Lübeck, fell in 1942 the heavy air raid on Lübeck to Victim. He had also left his Beetle collection of around 66,000 copies to the museum. Even lichens Gusmann had collected from the 1880th First in Hamburg and Halle, then from 1880 to 1892 finds from the Halle, Hamburg, Jena and Fichtelgebirge areas followed . He found 166 species of lichen. His algae collection includes 124 species from Schleswig-Holstein and 47 species from other regions.

Gusmann died in Schlutup near Lübeck in 1941. In 2008, the Lübeck Museum for Nature and Environment dealt with Paul Gusmann as a natural scientist in an exhibition. The Lübeck museum still houses his local faunistic beetle collection as well as collections of moss, algae and lichens.

Publications

  • Contribution to the beetle fauna of the Untertrave and its surroundings. In: Entomological sheets for the biology and systematics of beetles. Parts 1-5. 1914-1940.

literature

  • Obituary in: Alte-Herren-Zeitung of the former fraternity of Holzminda Göttingen. 43rd year 1941, p. 93.
  • Obituary in: Negotiations of the Association for Natural History Research in Hamburg. Hamburg 1947, p. XIV f.
  • Obituary in: Acta zoologica Fennica. Helsingforsiae 1952, p. 6.
  • Vitus Johannes Grummann, Oscar Klement: Biographical-bibliographical handbook of lichenology. Teaching 1974, p. 84.
  • Jan-Peter Frahm, Jens Eggers: Lexicon of German-speaking bryologists. Volume 2. Bonn 2005, p. 155 f.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ At the same time at the Jena University Hospital
  2. ↑ At the same time also at the University Hospital Halle (Saale)
  3. ^ At the same time also at the Leipzig University Hospital
  4. ↑ Willy Nolte (Ed.): Burschenschafter Stammrolle. List of members of the German Burschenschaft according to the status of the summer semester 1934. Berlin 1934, p. 163.
  5. ↑ http://www.hier-luebeck.de/2008/06/woche_der_museen_fr_von_naturmerkwrdheiten_zur_naturgeschichte_im_museum_fr_natur_und_umwelt/#more-6450
  6. ↑ https://museum-fuer-natur-und-umwelt.de/sammlung-heute
personal data
SURNAME Gusmann, Paul
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Gussmann, Richard Paul (full name); Gussmann, Paul (wrong name form)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German doctor, bryologist and entomologist
DATE OF BIRTH October 1, 1866
PLACE OF BIRTH Wandsbek
DATE OF DEATH November 1, 1941
Place of death Schlutup near Lübeck