Robert Lendlmayer von Lendenfeld

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Robert Ignaz Lendlmayer, Edler von Lendenfeld, (born February 10, 1858 in Graz , † July 3, 1913 in Prague ) was an Austrian zoologist and alpinist .

Life

Lendenfeld studied natural sciences and especially zoology from 1878 . To the Dr. phil. after receiving his doctorate , he lived in Australia and New Zealand from 1881 to 1886 . In 1883 he was a teacher at the Agricultural College in Lincoln (New Zealand) founded in 1878 . From 1884 to 1886 he taught at the Sydney Technical College . He also conducted studies on the invertebrates of the sea. As an assistant at University College London in 1886 he worked on the material collected in Australia and New Zealand.

Since 1889 private lecturer for zoology at the University of Innsbruck , he went in 1892 as associate professor at the University of Chernivtsi . In 1894 he became a professor . In 1897 he went to the Karl Ferdinand University as full professor and director of the Zoological Institute . From 1912 until shortly before his death in 1913 he was rector of the German University in Prague. His main research interests were the flight movements of insects and the fauna of the deep sea and coral reefs . He provided evidence that the luminous organs of deep-sea fish are glands. At the beginning of the 20th century, the zoological institute in Prague was one of the most modern in Europe thanks to the use of microscopy and microphotography with ultraviolet radiation , so that Lendenfeld processed large parts of almost all marine expeditions carried out at that time.

Lendenfeld was a passionate mountaineer . The Black Wall (Venediger Group) in the Hohe Tauern is one of his first ascent . From 1884 to 1885 he explored Mount Kosciuszko and Mount Townsend , the two highest mountains on the mainland of the Australian continent. The latter named Lendenfeld after the government official Mr. Townsend .

Honors

After Lendenfeld is the Mount Lendenfeld , the sixth highest mountain in New Zealand, named. The New Zealand sponge specialist Patricia R. Bergquist established the genus Lendenfeldia in 1980 . Further dedication names are the sponges Erylus lendenfeldi , Clathria lendenfeldi , Strepsichordaia lendenfeldi , Latrunculia lendenfeldi , Apfelbeckia lendenfeldi and Ircinia lendenfeldi .

Fonts (selection)

  • 1886: About Coelenteraten of the South Seas
  • 1888: Descriptive catalog of the sponges in the Australian Museum, Sydney
  • 1890: Australia Felix
  • 1892: Australian journey
  • 1894: The Tetractinellids of the Adriatic: (With an appendix about the Lithistides)
  • 1895: Report on the deep-sea fishes collected by HMS Challenger during the years 1873-76
  • 1896: From the Alps
  • 1896: The Clavulina of the Adriatic
  • 1899: Scientific results from trips to Madagascar and East Africa (with Alfred Völtzkow, Hans Schinz, Hans Strahl, Hubert Ludwig, Henri de Saussure)
  • 1899: The high mountains of the world
  • 1902: New Zealand
  • 1902: The great Australian barrier reef
  • 1903: The animal kingdom
  • 1903: Porifera: Tetraxonia
  • 1908: Tetraxonia of the German South Polar Expedition, 1901-1903
  • 1913: Investigations into the skeletal formation of the siliceous sponges: I. The microsclerosis of the Caminus species

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Rector's speech (HKM)
  2. ^ A b Deirdre Slattery: The Australian Alps: Kosciuszko, Alpine and Namadgi National Parks. University of New South Wales Press, 1999, ISBN 0-86840-319-9 , p. 105.

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personal data
SURNAME Lendenfeld, Robert Lendlmayer from
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lendenfeld, Robert von; Lendenfeld, Robert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian zoologist, alpinist and university lecturer
DATE OF BIRTH February 10, 1858
PLACE OF BIRTH Graz
DATE OF DEATH July 3, 1913
Place of death Prague