Carl Wilhelm Erich Zimmer
Carl Wilhelm Erich Zimmermann ( born September 29, 1873 in Special Hausen, † November 8, 1950 in Hull at Wolnzach ) was a German zoologist and specialist in crustaceans.
Life and work
Carl Wilhelm Erich Zimmermann grew up in Sigmaringen and graduated from high school in Berlin and Breslau. Subsequently, he studied from 1893 to 1898 in Strasbourg, Munich and Breslau Natural Sciences and in 1897 a doctorate. He worked from 1901 first as a curator and his habilitation in 1904 in zoology.
From 1912, Zimmer was working as an adjunct professor of zoology at the University of Munich and was first runner Director and from 1917 director of the Zoological State Collection Munich. From 1923 to 1937 he was Professor of Systematic Zoology and Director of the Zoological Museum of the University of Berlin. In 1932 he was serving as the president of the German Zoological Society, and in 1933 her first deputy. Room was a patron of the German - American evolutionary biologist Ernst Mayr, who earned his doctorate at him.
Room research focus were the crustaceans, where he dealt in particular with the crustacean order Cumacea.
Ehrentaxa
The Cumacea Diastylis zimmeri ( Ledoyer 1977), Iphinoe zimmeri ( Stebbing 1910), Leptostylis zimmeri ( Fage 1929) and Nannastacus zimmeri ( Calman 1911) were named in his honor. Also named Ernst Ahl et al different frogs called Arthroleptis zimmeri (1925 ), Philautus zimmeri (1927) and Oreophryne zimmeri (1933 ) in honor of the room. Auguste Forel dedicated to him in 1911 ant Technomyrmex zimmeri. Even Robert Mac Lachlan named 1876 Pseudopsilopteryx zimmeri a kind of caddis flies. In 1951, Walter Medley Tattersall described an opossum under the name Anchialina zimmeri. Karl Wilhelm Verhoeff (1867-1945) imaginary room with two terrestrial isopods, bearing the scientific name Formosillo zimmeri (1928) and Buddelundiella zimmeri ( 1930). 1908 Kalkachsenkoralle Mopsella zimmeri by Willy Kükenthal was first mentioned. Among the copepods, one finds the taxon Paralaophonte zimmeri (1929 ), derived from Carl van Douwe. Finally, named Naoyoshi Ii an opossum as Hypererythrops zimmeri (1937 ).
Works
- Cumacea. Akademische Verlagsgesellschaft, Leipzig 1941