Lorenz Müller

Lorenz Müller ( born February 18, 1868 in Mainz, † February 1, 1953 in Munich) was a German herpetologist.

Life and work

Müller studied art and then went to Paris, Belgium and the Netherlands. Since his early youth he was fascinated by terrariums and studied many amphibians and reptiles. Two key contacts were the scientist Oskar Boettger (1844-1910) and Willy Wolterstorff (1884-1943), who promoted miller herpetological research strong.

Lorenz Müller began as an illustrator at the Zoological State Collection Munich. However, since the herpetology department had no curator, in 1903 he was curator. This very old and extensive collection includes, among other preparations of Johann Baptist von Spix (1781-1826) and Johann Georg Wagler ( 1800-1832 ). Under Müller's line from 1912, the herpetological section has been constantly enlarged.

From 1909 to 1910 Lorenz Müller took part in an expedition to the Amazon. In 1928, he was chief curator of the zoological department of the Zoological State Collection Munich. During World War II he served in the Balkans and operate most of the time herpetological research.

In the 1920s, Müller attended the Balearic Islands, and operational intensive studies on the common wall lizard ( Podarcis ). He described several new subspecies, including the now extinct form of Podarcis lilfordi rodriquezi.

In 1948 he handed over the management of the herpetological department at Walter Hellmich and devoted himself to rebuilding the heavily damaged Zoological State Collection Munich. In 1953 he died at the age of 85 years at a bronchitis. Müller has published over 100 scientific articles herpetofauna.

Works (selection)

  • About a new gecko from Cameroon and a new colubrine snake from Central China. In: Zoologischer Anzeiger Leipzig. 1907, Volume 31, pp. 824-830 ( biodiversitylibrary.org )
  • Contributions to the herpetology of Cameroon, 1910
  • Zoological results of a tour in the estuary of the Amazon: General comments about the fauna and flora of the visited area. Volume 1 Publisher of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences, 1912
  • On a new species of the genus Pipa from Northern Brazil. In: Annals And Magazine of Natural History. 1914, Volume 14, pp. 101-102 ( biodiversitylibrary.org )
  • About new and rare Central and South American Amphibians and Reptiles, 1923
  • Research trips Stromers in the deserts of Egypt. V. Tertiary vertebrates: 1 Contributions to the knowledge of the Egyptian Krokodilier Tertiary. Publisher of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences, 1927 ( with Bernhard Peyer, William Weiler and Kálmán Lambrecht )
  • List of amphibians and reptiles in Europe. Treatises of the Senckenberg Nature Research Society. Issue 41 (1): p 1-62, 1928 ( with Robert Mertens )
  • Reptiles and amphibians ( Scientific Results of the German Gran Chaco expedition ) Vol 1 ( with Walter Hellmich ), publishing Strecker and Schröder, Stuttgart, 1936
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