Rudolf von Willemoes-Suhm
Detlef Carl Martin Rudolf von Willemoes-Suhm (born September 11, 1847 in Glückstadt , † September 13, 1875 near Tahiti ) was a German scientist and biologist. He was instrumental in the Challenger expedition as a zoologist .
Life
School and teaching
Rudolf von Willemoes-Suhm, the eldest son of the Rendsburg District Administrator Peter Friedrich von Willemoes-Suhm , received his first lessons in Wandsbeck and later attended the Johanneum in Hamburg, where he passed his Abitur on March 20, 1866.
His interest in the natural sciences had already been aroused during his school days. His publications in the specialist journal Der Zoologischer Garten received the first public attention . Some of them were: Contributions to the bird fauna of Northern Germany , To Andernachts bird fauna or The albinos among the birds of the Hamburg Museum (1867). Shortly before graduating from high school, he gave the lecture The Birds of Prey in the Hamburg-Altona Area (1866), which later appeared in the magazine Der Zoologischer Garten . He wrote this essay when he was 18.
“We are therefore entitled to present the geographical distribution of species as one of the most important branches of the natural sciences and, as far as we can, to help expand their knowledge. And much, very much, remains to be done. "
From April 24, 1866, he began his law studies in Bonn , where he became a member of the Corps Borussia . However, he moved to only one semester at the University of Munich to there zoology to study. From April 17, 1869, he continued his studies at the University of Göttingen , where he on 19 February 1870 a doctoral thesis on the anatomy and development of some specific parasites of Doctor of Philosophy PhD was.
Studies and expeditions
Study stays in La Spezia , Genoa and the Bay of Kiel were interrupted by being drafted into the Hessian Hussar Regiment . After returning to the University of Munich, he took part in an expedition to the Faroe Islands , which he reported on in letters to his mother. He published the results of this research trip in the journal Nature .
After the arrival of the expedition ship Phoenix in Edinburgh in October 1872, Willemoes-Suhm got to know the scientist and professor Charles Wyville Thomson , who was known to date and who in turn invited him to the Challenger expedition .
Willemoes-Suhm took on the job of zoologist on the Challenger expedition and described and sketched the species discovered during the expedition. He died shortly before the end of the voyage on September 13, 1875 on board of the consequences of an infectious disease ( wound rose ). He reported his personal and scientific experiences in dozens of letters to his mother and Professor Philipp Franz von Siebold , who published them in specialist journals.
Services
As a legacy of his work, the large number of his letters and papers that his mother published after his death are considered. In addition, the Polychelidae genus Willemoesia and the island Suhm Island , which were discovered during the Challenger Expedition, were named after him .
Publications
- Challenger letters. 1872-1875. doi: 10.5962 / bhl.title.1777
- Biological Observations on Lower Animals . 1871.
- About some trematodes and nematodes . 1870.
- About Coelacanthus and some related genera . 1867.
- Numerous publications in the trade journal Der zoologische Garten , (Ed.) FC Noll, Sauerländer, Frankfurt.
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From the Challenger Expedition . Letters to C. Th. E. v. Siebold by R. v. Willemoes-Suhm, in: Journal for Scientific Zoology , Engelmann, Leipzig
- I., 23rd vol., 1873, pp. 331 ff. / I-VIII
- II., 24th vol., 1874, pp. 581 ff. / IX-XXIV
- III., Vol. 25, 1875, pp. 217 ff. / XXV-XLVI
- IV., 26th vol., 1876, pp. 139 ff. / XLVII-LVIII
- V., 26th vol., 1876, pp. 225 ff. / LIX-LXXV
- VI. 26. Vol., 1876, p. 490 ff. / LXXVI-XCI
- Postscript S. XCI
literature
- Rudolf von Willemoes-Suhm: The Challenger Expedition. To the deepest point of the world's oceans. Edited by Gerhard H. Müller. Edition Erdmann, Wiesbaden 2015, ISBN 978-3-7374-0015-2 .
- GG Winkel : Biographical corps album of Borussia in Bonn 1821–1928 . Aschaffenburg 1928
- Mathilde von Willemoes-Suhm, b. von Qualen (mother, ed.): Challenger letters from Rudolf v. Willemoes-Suhm . Verlag von Wilhelm Engelmann, Leipzig 1877 (with a foreword and a biography of the deceased by Carl Kupffer , digitized ).
Individual evidence
- ↑ On the deepest point of the world's oceans , p. 13, lines 1-10
- ↑ Der Zoologischer Garten 6, p. 76, digitized version
- ↑ Der Zoologischer Garten 6, p. 407, digitized version
- ↑ Der Zoologischer Garten 7, p. 219, digitized version
- ↑ On the deepest point of the world's oceans , p. 13, lines 11-21
- ↑ The Zoological Garden , Volume 7, p. 183, digitized version
- ↑ On the deepest point of the world's oceans , p. 14, lines 1-6
- ^ Rudolf von Willemoes-Suhm: Danish expedition to the Faroes in Nature 6: p. 394 (1872)
- ^ Rudolf von Willemoes-Suhm: Remarks on the Zoologe of the Faroe islands in Nature 7: p. 105 (1872)
- ↑ On the deepest point of the world's oceans , p. 14, lines 29-33
- ↑ On the deepest point of the world's oceans , p. 32, lines 8-13
- ↑ On the lowest point of the world's oceans , p. 266
- ^ Letter from Rudolf von Willemoes-Suhm to CT von Siebold . Library of New South Wales. 1875. Retrieved October 18, 2013.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Willemoes-Suhm, Rudolf von |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German zoologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 11, 1847 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Glückstadt |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 13, 1875 |
| Place of death | Tahiti |