Rostock Zoological Collection

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Blaschka model in the Rostock Zoological Collection

The Rostock Zoological Collection is a scientific university collection that is affiliated to the Chair of General and Special Zoology at the University of Rostock . The collection founded by Oluf Gerhard Tychsen in 1775 with a focus on biodiversity and evolutionary research is used for teaching and research. Parts of the collection are also open to the public.

history

Memorial plaque at the entrance to the Zoological Collection

In 1775 the zoological collection was founded by the orientalist and senior librarian at the University of Rostock Oluf Gerhard Tychsen using older objects. In 1789 the holdings were housed as part of the "Academic Museum" in the White College in Rostock. In 1844, after taking over parts of the grand ducal collection from Ludwigslust , the collection moved to Universitätsplatz 1. In 1880, the collection moved into rooms at Universitätsplatz 2, where the holdings are located are still located today. Since 2002 there has been an exhibition room on the ground floor of the building that is open to the public.

Stocks

The Rostock Arrow Stork

The collection currently has around 140,000 series of specimens. The main collections include series of water mollusks (approx. 14,000), bristle worms (approx. 2,500), fish (approx. 2,500), birds (approx. 2,400), scorpions (approx. 1,000) and crustaceans (previously approx. 1,000, under development). Other focal points are special collections from FP Müller (aphid preparations), A. Raddatz ( Coleoptera, Diptera ), A. Wendt ( Coleoptera ), S. Brauns ( Coleoptera ) and OJH Karl ( Diptera ). There are also numerous teaching models in the collection, including a. the now rare glass models of the Blaschka brothers .

A well-known individual object is the Rostock “ arrow stork ” from 1822, which is the oldest evidence of the long-distance migration of birds.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Ragnar Kinzelbach: The Zoological Collection of the University of Rostock. In: Bull and Griffin. Sheets on cultural and regional history in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania , Volume 13, Schwerin 2003, pp. 196–197
  2. ↑ Homepage of the zoological collection ( Memento of the original from October 2, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.zoologie.uni-rostock.de
  3. ^ Ragnar Kinzelbach: The book of the arrow stork. 80 p., Marburg (Basilisken-Presse), 2005, ISBN 3-925347-78-X

Web links

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