Wilhelm Dunker

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Wilhelm Bernhard Rudolph Hadrian Dunker (born February 21, 1809 in Eschwege ; † March 13, 1885 in Marburg ) was a German geologist , paleontologist and zoologist .

Life

Wilhelm Dunker studied mining and metallurgy in Göttingen from 1830 to 1834 and after completing his studies initially worked as an intern at the Bergamt zu Obernkirchen. Soon thereafter, he was appointed to teach mineralogical sciences at the newly founded polytechnic school (Höhere Gewerbeschule) in Kassel . In 1853 he was elected a corresponding member of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences . In 1854 he was appointed professor at the University of Marburg , where he taught until his death.

But Dunker was best known as one of the most important malacologists of his time. He had a very extensive private collection of snails and mussels, which he was constantly expanding by exchanging (and probably buying) with other collectors. He maintained contacts with his contemporaries Rudolph Amandus Philippi , Karl Ludwig Pfeiffer , Hugh Cuming and Johannes Albers . He also acquired numerous original copies and types of these authors through exchange . After his death, Dunker's mollusc collection was bought by the Prussian state and, at the instigation of the curator Eduard von Martens, was included in the collections of the then Zoological Museum Berlin , where it is still located today.

Wilhelm Dunker wrote a large number of scientific publications on the systematics of molluscs and described numerous new species. In 1846 he founded the magazine “ Palaeontographica ” together with Hermann von Meyer , which was published by both and is still published today.

He also dealt with paleontology, among other things he found the tooth of a predatory dinosaur in the coal mining of Obernkirchen , which was then described by the Berlin paleontologists Wilhelm Dames and Ernst Koken and named after Dunker ( Megalosaurus dunkeri). Dunker himself published about his dinosaur finds in the program of the Higher Trade School Kassel 1843/44 and in the monograph of the North German Wealden education in 1846.

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Paleontological work:

  • 1837. Contributions to the knowledge of the north German oolite formation (together with Friedrich Carl Ludwig Koch )
  • 1844. Preliminary diagnoses of several new conchylia from the North German lias formation, which will be described and illustrated in more detail shortly. Journal of Malacozoology 1: 186-188.
  • 1846. Monograph of the North German Wealden Education.
  • 1846. About the fossils occurring in the Lias near Halberstadt. Palaeontographica, 1: 34-41.
  • 1846. Diagnoses of new conchylia from the North German lias formation. Journal of Malacozoology 3: 168-170.
  • 1847. About the fossils occurring in the Lias near Halberstadt (continuations). Palaeontographica, 1: 107-112, 113-125.
  • 1847. About some new fossils from various mountain formations. Palaeontographica, 1: 128-133.
  • 1848. About the conchylia and plant remains occurring in the Molasse near Günzburg near Ulm. Palaeontographica, 1: 155-168.
  • 1848. Addendum to the description of the fossils found in the Lias near Halberstadt. Palaeontographica, 1: 176-181.
  • 1848. About a new asteracanthus from the coral limestone of the Lindener Berg near Hanover. Palaeontographica, 1: 188-189.
  • 1848. About the molluscs found in the Kassel shell limestone. Program of the higher vocational school in Cassel, 21 p., Printed by Theodor Fischer, Cassel
  • 1851. About the molluscs found in the Muschelkalk of Upper Silesia up to now. Palaeontographica, 1: 283-310.
  • 1851. On Ammonites Gervilianus, d'Orb. from the north German Hilsthone. Palaeontographica, 1: 324-325.
  • 1851. Capulus Hartlebeni , a new snail from the shell limestone in the Elze area in Hanover. Palaeontographica, 1: 334-334.
  • 1851. Ammonites Buchii , v. Alb. and A. parcus , L. v. Book from the cölestin layer of the shell limestone from Wogau near Jena. Palaeontographica, 1: 335-336.
  • 1856. About several plant remains from the ashlar sandstone of Blankenburg. Palaeontographica, 4: 179-183.
  • 1862-1864. About the mollusks occurring in the plastic clay of Grossalmerode. Palaeontographica, 9: 86-90.

Zoological work:

  • 1845. Description of a new type of Cyclas . Journal of Malacozoology 2:20.
  • 1845. Diagnoses molluscorum qourandum novorum, quae ex itinere ad oras Africae occidentalis reportavit cl. G. Tams, Med. Dr. Journal of Malacozoology 2: 163-168.
  • 1846. Briefliche communication of some Bulimus species. Journal of Malacozoology 2: 176-177.
  • 1846. Diagnoses molluscorum novorum, quae ex itinere ad oras Africae occidentalis reportavit Dr. Tams. Journal of Malacozoology 3: 24-28.
  • 1846. Diagnoses of new conchylia. Journal of Malacozoology 3:48.
  • 1846. Diagnoses Molluscorum novorum. Journal of Malacozoology 3: 108-112.
  • 1846. Diagnoses Buccinorum quorundam novorum. Journal of Malacozoology 3: 170-172.
  • 1847. Diagnoses Buccinorum quorundam novorum. Journal of Malacozoology 4: 59-64.
  • 1848. Diagnoses Molluscorum novorum. Journal of Malacozoology 5: 177-186.
  • 1848. Diagnoses specierum novarum generis Planorbis collectionis Cumingianae. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 16: 40-43.
  • 1850. Diagnoses molluscorum quorundam novorum. Journal of Malacozoology 7: 30-32.
  • 1852. Diagnoses molluscorum novorum. Journal of Malacozoology 9: 49-62.
  • 1852. Argonauta gruneri Dunker. Journal of Malacozoology 9:48.
  • 1852. Aviculacea nova. Journal of Malacozoology 9: 73-80.
  • 1852. Diagnoses Molluscorum novorum. Journal of Malacozoology 9: 125-128, 189-191.
  • 1853. Diagnoses Molluscorum novorum. Journal of Malacozoology 10: 58-60.
  • 1853. Ampullaria eximia . Journal of Malacozoology 10: 93-95.
  • 1853. Diagnoses Molluscorum novorum. Journal of Malacozoology 10: 95-96.
  • 1853. New Mytilaceans. Journal of Malacozoology 10: 82-92.
  • 1853. Diagnoses Molluscorum novorum. Journal of Malacozoology 10: 110-112.
  • 1853. Index molluscorum, quae in itinere ad Guineam inferiorem collegit Georgius Tams med. Dr. Theodor Fischer, Cassel.
  • 1853. Limnaeacea nova collectionis Cumingianae. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 21: 53-54.
  • 1855. Bulimus ochsenii Dunker. Malacoological Sheets 2: 107.
  • 1856. Mollusca nova collectionis Cumingianae. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 24: 254-358.
  • 1856. Mytilacea nova collectionis Cumingianae. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 24: 358-366.
  • 1857. Clausilia lanzai Dunker. Malacoological Sheets 4: 232.
  • 1858. Some new species of the Naiads. Malacoological Sheets 5: 225-229.
  • 1858-1870. Description and illustration of new or little-known marine conchylia, ser. Novitates conchologicae (Dunker, W. ed.), Vol. 2 Mollusca marina (Dunker, W. ed.). Theodor Fischer, Cassel
  • 1859. New Japanese mollusks. Malacoological Sheets 6: 221-240.
  • 1859. Laimodonta pfeifferi Dunker. Malacoological Sheets 6: 201-202.
  • 1861. Description of some of Dr. v. Freshwater mollusks collected by Hochstetter in New Zealand. Malacoological Sheets 8: 150-154.
  • 1861. Mollusca Japonica. Schweitzerbart, Stuttgart. ( Digitized in the library of the Tokyo Oceanographic University )
  • 1861. Description of new mollusks. Malacoological Sheets 8: 35-45.
  • 1861. Solenacea nova collectionis Cumingianae. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 29: 418-427.
  • 1862. Two new physics discovered by Hochstetter. Malacoological Sheets 9: 150-151.
  • 1862. Species nonnullae Bursarum vel Ranellarum collectionis Cumingianae. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 30: 238-240.
  • 1863. A new voluta . Malacoological Sheets 10: 145.
  • 1864. Five new mollusks. Malacoological Sheets 11: 99-102.
  • 1864. A new bulimus . Malacoological Sheets 11: 156.
  • 1866. Report on the mollusks brought back from the Novara expedition. Negotiations of the Imperial-Royal Zoological-Botanical Society in Vienna 16: 909-916 (with Zelebor).
  • 1867. Two new freshwater mussels from Africa. Malacoological Sheets 14: 206-209.
  • 1871. Mollusca nova Musei Godeffroy Hamburgiensis. Malacoological Sheets 18: 150-175.
  • 1872. The genus Avicula in images from nature with descriptions, ser. Systematic Conchylia Cabinet by Martini and Chemnitz (Küster, HC ed.), Vol. 7. Bauer & Raspe, Nuremberg.
  • 1874. Three new marine conchyls of the Norwegian fauna. Bulletin of the German Malacoological Society 6: 7 (with butcher).
  • 1875. Diagnoses of two new Bulimi. News bulletin of the German Malacoological Society 7: 28-29.
  • 1875. List of the species of some genera of bivalve mollusks of the Red Sea. Yearbooks of the German Malacoological Society 2: 1-6.
  • 1875. Two new Bulimi from Sierra Nevada (Columbia). Yearbooks of the German Malacoological Society 2: 220-221.
  • 1875. About conchylia from Desterro, Prov. Sta. Catharina, Brazil. Yearbooks of the German Malacoological Society 2: 240-254.
  • 1877. Mollusca nonnulla nova maris Japonici. Malacoological Sheets 24: 67-75.
  • 1879. Mollusca quaedam nova. Journal de Conchyliologie 27: 212-217.
  • 1882. Index Molluscorum Maris Japonici. Theodor Fischer, Cassel. ( Digitized in the library of the Tokyo Oceanographic University )
  • 1882. De Molluscis nonnullis terrestribus Americae australis. Yearbooks of the German Malacoological Society 9: 377-380.
  • 1882. The genus Lithophaga in illustrations after nature with descriptions, ser. Systematic Conchylia Cabinet by Martini and Chemnitz, vol. 8. Bauer & Raspe, Nuremberg.
  • 1883. Two new murices. Malacoological sheets, new episodes 6: 35-36.
  • 1886. The Limnaeiden family containing the genera Planorbis , Limnaeus , Physa and Amphipepla . In illustrations according to nature and descriptions, ser. Systematic Conchylia Cabinet by Martini and Chemnitz (HC Küster, W. Kobelt, HC Weinkauff, ed.), Vol. 1, No. 17 [a], Bauer & Raspe, Nuremberg (together with HC Küster, S. Clessin).

literature

Web links

Wikisource: Wilhelm Dunker  - Sources and full texts

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hessisches Staatsarchiv Marburg (HStAMR), Best. 915 No. 5665, p. 101 ( digitized version ).
  2. ↑ Holger Krahnke: The members of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen 1751-2001 (= Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Philological-Historical Class. Volume 3, Vol. 246 = Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Mathematical-Physical Class. Episode 3, vol. 50). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2001, ISBN 3-525-82516-1 , p. 72.
  3. ^ Palaeontographica
  4. ^ Probst, Windolf Dinosaurier in Deutschland , Bertelsmann 1993, p. 206
personal data
SURNAME Dunker, Wilhelm
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Dunker, Wilhelm Bernhard Rudolph Hadrian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German geologist, paleontologist and zoologist
DATE OF BIRTH February 21, 1809
PLACE OF BIRTH Eschwege
DATE OF DEATH March 13, 1885
Place of death Marburg