Philipp Bertkau

Philipp Bertkau

Philipp Bertkau (born January 11, 1849 in Cologne , † October 22, 1894 in Bonn ) was a German zoologist . He worked in particular on the anatomy of the hermaphroditic arthropod , on the olfactory sense of butterflies and on the anatomy and physiology of spiders . He dealt with the systematics in particular of the South American spiders.

Bertkau studied natural sciences at the University of Bonn and received his doctorate there in 1872 . In autumn 1873 he became an assistant at the Botanical Institute in Munich . In the spring of the following year he went to Bonn, where he became an assistant at the zoological institute. In the same year he received the teaching qualification for higher schools.

In 1878, Philipp Bertkau described the spiders in the Rott fossil deposit . He took an active part in the Bonn Society for Natural History and became its secretary. On November 6, 1882 Bertkau was appointed professor at the Agricultural Academy of Poppelsdorf . In 1890 he became a curator at the Institute of Zoology and Comparative Anatomy - a post created especially for him. In 1891 he was elected a member of the Leopoldina Scholars' Academy .

He fell ill at the age of 44. He suffered from nervous disorders and paralysis and died soon after.

Fonts

• Some spiders and a myriapod from the brown coal from Rott . In: Negotiations of the Natural History Association of the Prussian Rhineland and Westphalia, 4, 5, Bonn 1878, pp. 346–360, plate 5 ( digitized version )

literature

• Pierre Bonnet : Bibliographia araneorum. Analysis méthodique de toute de littérature aranéologique . Noble, Lausanne 1968 (reprint of the Toulouse 1945 edition).