Paul Matschie

Paul Matschie, 1901.

Georg Friedrich Paul Matschie (born August 11, 1861 in Brandenburg an der Havel , † March 7, 1926 in Berlin-Friedenau ) was a German zoologist . From 1890 to 1926 he was head of the mammal department at the Zoological Museum in Berlin .

The Matschie tree kangaroo ( Dendrolagus matschiei Forster & Rothschild, 1907) and the glasses galago ( Galago matschiei Lorenz, 1917) are named after him.

In 1903 he worked for the Cologne-based chocolate producer Ludwig Stollwerck with texts for Stollwerck collector's pictures and wrote a. a. the lyrics for the collective album No. 6 - Stollwerck's animal kingdom. Other authors were the writer Hans Eschelbach , the journalist Julius Rodenberg , the writer Joseph von Lauff , the poet Carl Hermann Busse , the novelist Gustav Falke , the poet Anna Ritter and many others

In 1912 Matschie described the Timboyok tree kangaroo ( Dendrolagus goodfellowi buergersi ) from what is now Papua New Guinea and in 1916 Finsch's tree kangaroo ( Dendrolagus inustus finschi ) and the Ifola tree kangaroo ( Dendrolagus dorianus notatus ).

Publications (selection)

• About Romanian mammals . In: Meeting reports of the Society of Friends of Natural Sciences in Berlin . 1901, p. 220-238 ( biodiversitylibrary.org ).

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Stollwerck scrapbook No. 6 - Stollwerck's animal kingdom. Publishing house Gebrüder Stollwerck AG, Cologne, Berlin. 1903
2. ↑ Lorenz, Detlef: Reklamekunst um 1900. Artist lexicon for collecting pictures, Reimer-Verlag, 2000.

literature

• Andreas W. Daum : Science popularization in the 19th century. Civil culture, scientific education and the German public, 1848–1914 . Oldenbourg, Munich 1998, ISBN 3-486-56337-8 .
• Renate Angermann: Anna Held, Paul Matschie and the mammals of the Berlin Zoological Museum . Bongo 24: 107-138 (1994)
• Brigitte Hoppe:  Matschie, Paul. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 16, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1990, ISBN 3-428-00197-4 , p. 384 f. ( Digitized version ).