Hermann Strebel

Hermann Wilhelm Strebel ( born January 1, 1834 in Hamburg, † November 6, 1914 in Hamburg ) was a German merchant, malacologist and ethnologist.

Life

Hermann Wilhelm Strebel was born on January 1, 1834 in Hamburg as the youngest of four brothers. During his school years he was encouraged by a teacher to employment with conches. On August 13, 1848, the thirteen- year-old stabbed to Veracruz / Mexico in the lake. There he was supposed to start under the supervision of his eldest brother for an apprenticeship in a manufacturing business. Just before the coast of Yucatan survived a shipwreck Strebel. Between 1852 and 1867 he worked as a merchant for German exporters of manufactured goods. During this time he began under the guidance of his friend Carl Hermann Berendt with collecting native mollusca, which constituted the basis for his collection. At this time began a lively exchange with German and American malacologists. In 1860 he married the daughter of a merchant, born in Mexico Inés Mahn. In 1861 there his eldest son Richard Strebel is born. 1867 moved the now five-member family moved to Hamburg. Between 1867 and 1899 he co-founded Strebel led the business for foreign lumber. From 1899 he worked in the scientific mollusks department of the Natural History Museum of Hamburg. Through contact with other German malacologists he published from 1873 to 1882 his first scientific papers on the Mexican land and freshwater mollusks. In parallel, he was befriended by a family in Mexico archaeological excavations at various locations to perform and put in a collection of Hamburg, which he utilized scientifically. In order to finance further excavation activities, he sold archaeological finds to the Museum of Ethnology, Berlin, to the Senate of Hamburg and Leipzig. Hermann Strebel received in 1906 the Loubat Prize of the Royal Prussian Academy of Sciences, Berlin, 1904, he was of the Giessen University honorary doctor appointed by the Senate of Hamburg professor in January 1914. Hermann Strebel died on November 6, 1914 in Hamburg.

Work

  • Contributions to the knowledge of the Mexican land and freshwater mollusca, 5 books, Hamburg 1873-1882
  • The ruins of Cempollan in the state of Veracruz ( Mexico), notifications of Totonac the present time, ruins from the Misantla region, in: Transactions of the Natural Science Association in Hamburg, Vol VIII, Part 1, 1884
  • Old Mexico, Archaeological contributions to the cultural history of its inhabitants, I and Part II, Hamburg and Leipzig, 1885-1889 ( digitized Part I ), ( digitized Part II)
  • " Studies on the Steinjoche ", International Archives of Ethnography, Volume III. Leiden, 1890
  • Cerro de Cajetes, First expedition, buy from Buzon, Soledad and Paso de Ovejas. Archives Act 750/93, Museum of Ethnology, Department of America, Berlin, 1893
  • Buy from Soledad and Buzon, Archives Act 1505/94, Museum of Ethnology, Department of Ancient America. Berlin 1894
  • About animal ornaments on pottery from ancient Mexico, publications from the Royal Museum of Ethnology, Berlin, Vol VI, H.1, 1899
  • The Sculptures of Santa Lucia Cozumahualpa Guatemala in the Ethnological Museum of Berlin, Washington Smithsonian Reports, 1901, pp. 549-561
  • Ornaments on pottery from ancient Mexico, Hamburg 1903
  • Contributions to the knowledge of the molluscan fauna of the Magalhaen Province, Jena 1904-1907
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