Wilhelm Weltner
Carl Wilhelm Hermann Weltner (born October 26, 1854 in Römnitz , † April 11, 1917 in Berlin ) was a German zoologist . He specialized in sponges , coelenterates, and barnacles .
Life
Weltner was the son of a domain tenant in Römnitz in the Principality of Ratzeburg . He attended high school in Ratzeburg and secondary school in Schönberg . After passing the school leaving examination in 1874, he studied five semesters with Carl Remigius Fresenius in his laboratory in Wiesbaden . After completing his military service in 1876/77 , he studied at the University of Strasbourg until 1882 . In 1878 he turned from chemistry and to zoology. During his studies he already worked as an assistant to Eduard Oscar Schmidt at the Zoological Institute. In 1882 he was with the work contributions to the knowledge of the sponges in August Weismann in Freiburg doctorate . In 1883 he conducted anatomical and histological studies with Wilhelm His and Christian Wilhelm Braune at the University of Leipzig . After a few months with Carl Eduard Adolph Gerstäcker in Greifswald , he continued his studies in 1884 with Franz Eilhard Schulze at the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Berlin . On July 1, 1885 he became an assistant, in 1892 a curator and in 1902 a professor at the local zoological museum .
Weltner suffered from an eye disease ( glaucoma ) in the last years of his life and underwent an operation on both eyes in 1911, which could only delay his progressive blindness.
Services
Weltner was particularly interested in sponges. At the Zoological Museum he looked after the barnacles, coelenterates and protozoa , temporarily also the tunicates , moss animals and water fleas . For several years he researched the fauna of the Tegeler See . He studied the marine fauna during several stays on Heligoland and in 1893 at the zoological station in Rovinj on the Istrian peninsula . From 1900 to 1907 he made annual excursions to the Madüsee south of Stettin , where he discovered relict marine crabs.
Weltner worked on the collections of several expeditions, such as the barnacles of the German Deep Sea Expedition (Valdivia Expedition) and the German Expedition to the Northern Arctic Ocean (Helgoland Expedition) from 1898 as well as Alfred Voeltzkow's East Africa expedition from 1903 to 1905.
From 1904 to 1910 he was editor of the Archives for Natural History .
Honors
A genus of barnacles is named after Wilhelm Weltner Weltnerium .
literature
- Anton Collin: Wilhelm Weltner. An obituary . In: Messages from the Zoological Museum in Berlin . Volume 9, 1918, pp. 61-70. doi : 10.1002 / mmnz.19180090106 (with a list of Wilhelm Weltner's publications)
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Weltner, Wilhelm |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Weltner, Carl Wilhelm Hermann (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German zoologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 26, 1854 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Romnitz |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 11, 1917 |
| Place of death | Berlin |