Theodor Löbbecke
Carl Heinrich Wilhelm Theodor Löbbecke (born March 4, 1821 in Hückeswagen an der Wupper , † January 18, 1901 in Düsseldorf ) was a German pharmacist and the founder of the collections of the Löbbecke Museum in Düsseldorf.
Life
Löbbecke left the Elberfeld Realschule in 1837 and trained as a pharmacist over the next six years. In 1843 he studied for a year at the University of Berlin , after which he was licensed to become a first-class pharmacist. Around 1846 Löbbecke took over the Einhorn pharmacy in Duisburg , at which time he also began to build up his collection. By traveling through Europe, the Middle East and Africa, as well as buying up other collections from other researchers, he was able to steadily increase his collection, which is why he was soon afterwards not only jokingly referred to as the "shell king", because around 1880 he had the largest collection of conchylia in Europe. After giving up his pharmacy in 1873, he set up a private museum at Schadowstrasse 51 in Düsseldorf. During the following years he also worked on the second edition of the "Systematic Conchylia Cabinet", a work on snails and mussels. In 1883 he married Caroline Biesterfeld, with whom he retired from 1886 and completely gave up his scientific activity. Löbbecke died in his home in Düsseldorf in 1901.
Theodor Löbbecke is buried in the North Cemetery in Düsseldorf . A street was named after him in his hometown of Hückeswagen.
The physician, natural scientist and natural history collector Wilhelm Ludwig Döring was his uncle.
collection
After his death, his widow bequeathed the collection to the city on the condition that the private museum should become a public museum. The successor to this first museum in the old warehouse at the Rheinwerft still exists today. Today the collection contains around 250,000 - mainly marine - mollusks , around 75,000 finds from the field of geosciences, around 8,500 egg shells , around 650,000 insects and much more. The Löbbecke Museum has had his name since 1904, when it was first opened to the public. In 1930 it merged with the Düsseldorf Zoo, which opened in 1876. Löbbecke's collections survived the Second World War almost undamaged and were exhibited again in an air raid shelter in 1947, and an aquarium was added a year later. The collection was closed in the 1980s and moved to Düsseldorf's Nordpark, where it was reopened in 1987 as the Aqua-Zoo-Löbbecke-Museum , combining the institutions "Zoo" and "Museum" in one unit for the first time in Germany . It now has over 500,000 visitors annually.
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| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Löbbecke, Theodor |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Löbbecke, Carl Heinrich Wilhelm Theodor |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German pharmacist and founder of the Löbbecke Museum collections |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 4, 1821 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Hückeswagen |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 18, 1901 |
| Place of death | Dusseldorf |