Sidney von Woehrmann

Sidney Freiherr von Wöhrmann , (* 1865 ; † June 12, 1939 in Riga ) was a German zoologist ( malacologist ) and paleontologist .

Sidney von Wöhrmann came from the Baltic noble family Wöhrmann , his mother Emma von Wöhrmann (1839-1881) was an acquaintance of Friedrich Nietzsche's family in Naumburg and Sidney von Wöhrmann stayed with Nietzsche's mother when he was in Naumburg with his brother Johny attended the Pforta State School . In 1882/83 he studied law in Dorpat , but then switched from 1888 to 1887 at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich to study natural sciences, in particular zoology and palaeontology under Karl Alfred von Zittel , from whom he received his doctorate in 1887. The dissertation (The fauna of the so-called Cardita and Raibler layers in the North Tyrolean and Bavarian Alps) was published in Vienna in 1889.

Later he went back to Courland. When he was expelled from there in the turmoil during and after the end of the First World War, he took over Gut Stockelsdorf (with the Stockelsdorf manor ) in 1920 , which he inherited from an extensive relative Sarah Blohm.

In 1893 he named the fossil mussel superfamily Ctenodontoidea in the order Nuculida .

Fonts

On the systematic position of the trigonids and the descent of the nayads . In: Yearbook of the Imperial Geological Institute , vol. 43 (1893), pp. 1–28.
with Ernst Koken : The fauna of the Raibler layers from the Schlern plateau . In: Journal of the German Geological Society , Vol. 44 (1892), Issue 2, pp. 165–223.
Alpine and extra-Alpine Triassic . In: New Yearbook for Mineralogy, Geology and Palaeontology , Vol. 1894, Volume II, pp. 1-50.

References and comments

↑ Giorgio Colli, Mazzino Montanari, Norbert Miller, Annemarie Pieper: Nietzsche Briefwechsel III, 7/1, review of the third section, letters from and to Friedrich Nietzsche 1880 to 1884, De Gruyter, p. 611, as well as Volume II 7/3, 2, note p. 1007
↑ The work is discussed in the history of paleontology by Zittel
↑ Biography in Hain Tankler, The University of Tartu / Dorpat and Bavaria, in: Hermann Meyer-Thoma (editor): Bavaria and Eastern Europe: from the history of relations between Bavaria, Franconia and Swabia with Russia, Ukraine and Belarus, Harrassowitz 2000, p 279
↑ Vaterstädtische Blätter, Lübeck, January 25, 1920, quoted in the bulletin of the CDU Stockelsdorf (CDU-Contact Stockelsdorf), No. 105, 2010, Jörg Troike: Miss Sarah Blohm - the last of her tribe, p. 16.

personal data
SURNAME	Woehrmann, Sidney von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German zoologist (malacologist) and paleontologist
DATE OF BIRTH	1865
DATE OF DEATH	June 12, 1939
Place of death	Riga

[1] Giorgio Colli, Mazzino Montanari, Norbert Miller, Annemarie Pieper: Nietzsche Briefwechsel III, 7/1, review of the third section, letters from and to Friedrich Nietzsche 1880 to 1884, De Gruyter, p. 611, as well as Volume II 7/3, 2, note p. 1007

[2] The work is discussed in the history of paleontology by Zittel

[3] Biography in Hain Tankler, The University of Tartu / Dorpat and Bavaria, in: Hermann Meyer-Thoma (editor): Bavaria and Eastern Europe: from the history of relations between Bavaria, Franconia and Swabia with Russia, Ukraine and Belarus, Harrassowitz 2000, p 279

[4] Vaterstädtische Blätter, Lübeck, January 25, 1920, quoted in the bulletin of the CDU Stockelsdorf (CDU-Contact Stockelsdorf), No. 105, 2010, Jörg Troike: Miss Sarah Blohm - the last of her tribe, p. 16.