Karl Moriz Diesing

Karl Moriz Diesing ( born June 16, 1800 Krakow, † January 10, 1867 in Vienna, other spellings: Karl Moritz, Carl Moritz, Polish Karol Maurycy Diesing ) was a Helminthologe and botanist. He is regarded as his most important Helminthologe time in succession by Karl Asmund Rudolphi. His botanical author abbreviation is " Diesing ".

Biography

Diesing was born in Krakow, the son of an assessor in the noble court. He attended high school in Lviv and graduated from in 1819. From 1819 he studied medicine at the University of Vienna and parallel to the natural sciences. On December 28, 1826 he was awarded a doctorate in medicine, but he never took a job as a practicing physician. He was an assistant at the Institute of Botany under Nikolaus Joseph von Jacquin. Since 1829 he was an intern at the imperial court and Natural Resources Cabinet, first he worked in the Department of Mineralogy, headed by Friedrich Mohs, then under Johann Gottfried brakeman in the helminthological department of the Zoological Cabinet. In May 1835, he was curator of the Department of Mineralogy, in July 1836 he was curator of the Department of Zoology. In 1848, his eyesight deteriorated greatly by retinitis until he was completely blind in 1849. Thanks to his excellent memory, he published with the support of his assistant Augustus of Pelzeln continue scientific work. In 1852 he retired. He died on January 10, 1867 of lung disease.

Since 1835, he was a member of the Leopoldina, since 1848 he was a regular member of the Imperial Academy of Sciences in Vienna. He was also an honorary member of the Imperial Royal Society of Physicians in Vienna.

Scientific achievements

In the years 1850 and 1851 he published two volumes of the monograph Systema Helminthum in which he described 175 species of nematodes. In botany, he distinguished himself as a describer of algae.

To him, the genus Diesingiella Guiart in 1931 and the type Lingutula diesingii are named after him in honor.

Selected Works

  • Monograph of the genera Amphistoma and Diplodiscus (PDF, 10.1 MB ). Annals of the Vienna Museum of Natural History (1835 )
  • New genera of internal worms (1835 )
  • Tropisurus and Thysanosoma, Zwey new genera of internal worms ( entozoa ) from Brazil. Medicinische Yearbooks of the Imperial Royal Austrian State 7, pages 83-116 3 plates (1835 )
  • Aspidogaster limacoides, a new type single worm, described and illustrated by a picture. Medicinische Yearbooks of kaiserl. - royal. Austrian State 16, pages 420-430 1 plate (1835 )
  • Attempt at a monograph of the genus Pentastoma (PDF, 12.9 MB). Annals of the Vienna Museum of Natural History 1, pp. 1-32 Plate 1-4 ( 1836)
  • New genera of internal worms in addition to a night Rage of the monograph Amphistomen. Annals of the Vienna Museum of Natural History 2, pp. 219-242 (1839 )
  • Ditrachyceros rudis Sultzer, a Pseudohelminth. Austrian medicinische Wochenschrift 50, pages 1177-1181 (1841 )
  • Systematic survey of the Foraminifera and Bryozoa monostegia anopisthia. Proceedings of the Imperial Academy of Sciences. Of Science Classe, pages 17-19 (1848)
  • Systema Helminthum, vol. 1 Vienna: Braumüller, 1850
  • Systema Helminthum, vol. 2 Vienna: Braumüller 1851
  • Nineteen species of trematodes (1855 )
  • Sechzen genera of internal worms and their types (PDF, 2.1 MB) ( 1855)
  • Twelve species of Acanthocephala (1856 )
  • Nineteen species of trematodes (1856 )
  • Twenty types of Cephalocotyleen. Memoirs of the Imperial Academy of Sciences. Of Science Classe Vienna 12, pages 23-38 (1856 )
  • Sixteen types of Nematoideen ( 1857)
  • Fourteen types of Bdellideen. Memoranda of Mathematics and natural science class of the Imperial Academy of Sciences ( 1858)
  • Corrections and additions to the revision of the Cercarieen. Proceedings of the Imperial Academy of Sciences. Of Science Classe, pages 239-290 (1858 )
  • Revision of Rhyngodeen ( III With panels ). Proceedings of the Imperial Academy of Sciences. Of Science Classe 37, pages 719-782 (1859 )
  • Revision of the nematodes ( With I plate). Proceedings of the Imperial Academy of Sciences. Of Science Classe 42, pages 595-738 (1861 )
  • Small helminthologische Mittheilungen. Proceedings of the Imperial Academy of Sciences. Of Science Classe 43, pages 269-282 (1861 )
  • Revision of the Turbellaria (1862 )
  • Revision of Cephalocotyleen: Cyclocotyleen division. Proceedings of the Imperial Academy of Sciences. Of Science Classe (1864 )
  • Revision of Cephalocotyleen: division Paramecocotyleen (1864 )
  • Revision of Prothelminthen. Division: Mastigophoren. Proceedings of the Imperial Academy of Sciences in Vienna 52, pages 287-404 (1866 )

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