Franz Steindachner
Franz Steindachner (born November 11, 1834 in Vienna ; † December 10, 1919 there ) was an Austrian zoologist .
Life
Steindachner first studied law in Vienna before turning to the natural sciences in 1856 . He first dealt with fossil fish . Due to his excellent work, he was entrusted with the management of the fish collection of the Natural History Museum Vienna in 1860 . In the following year, after Leopold Fitzinger left , he also took over the collection of amphibians and reptiles . From 1898 until his death he was the director of the museum. Steindachner was also a student of Joseph Hyrtl .
Steindachner's first collecting trips took him to Spain , Portugal , the Canary Islands and Senegal .
Between 1859 and 1868 Steindachner published 55 ichthyological works with a total volume of almost 900 pages and thus became one of the most outstanding ichthyologists in a short time . In 1872 he visited the Galapagos Islands together with the American naturalist and former President of Harvard University Thomas Hill . In the 1890s he led the Austro-Hungarian deep-sea expeditions in the eastern Mediterranean , the Adriatic and the Red Sea . In 1892 he was elected a member of the Leopoldina .
The genus Steindachneridion from the family of the antenna catfish (Pimelodidae) and over 30 fish species, z. B. Steindachner's dwarf cichlid ( Apistogramma steindachneri ) are named after him.
Fonts (selection)
- The freshwater fish of southeastern Brazil , Vienna 1877
- About three new Characines and three Siluroids from the Amazon river basin within Brazil , Vienna 1908.
- Contributions to the knowledge of the river fish of South America , Vienna 1915
literature
- Constantin von Wurzbach : Steindachner, Franz . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 38th part. Kaiserlich-Königliche Hof- und Staatsdruckerei, Vienna 1879, pp. 57–61 ( digitized version ).
- Paul Kähsbauer : Artistic Director Dr. Franz Steindachner, his life and work . In: Annals of the Natural History Museum Vienna Vol. 63, 1959.
- V. Stagl: Steindachner Franz. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 13, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 2007–2010, ISBN 978-3-7001-6963-5 , p. 164.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Great personalities of the market town of Perchtoldsdorf, accessed on April 18, 2017
Web links
- Literature by and about Franz Steindachner in the catalog of the German National Library
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Steindachner, Franz |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian zoologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 11, 1834 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Vienna |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 10, 1919 |
| Place of death | Vienna |