Max Carl Wilhelm Weber
Max Wilhelm Carl Weber ( born December 5, 1852 in Bonn, Germany, † February 7, 1937 in Eerbeek, Netherlands ) was a German - Dutch zoologist.
Life and work
Max Weber was the son of German - Dutch couple Hermann Weber and Wilhelmina van der Kolk. When he was two years old, his father died. After attending school in Idar -Oberstein, in Neuwied and Bonn in 1873, he studied at the University of Bonn Comparative Anatomy. From 1875 to 1876 he attended lectures at Carl Eduard von Martens at the Humboldt University in Berlin. In 1877 he earned his doctorate at the University of Bonn with a dissertation " The subsidiary bodies of the eye of local lacertids " to the doctor. In 1878 he made his medical exam and completed his military service in Germany. In 1880 he lectured at the University of Utrecht in human anatomy. From May to October 1881, he went on an expedition to the Barents Sea.
In 1883 he married the Dutch Algologin and botanist Anna Weber -van Bosse ( 1852-1942 ). In the same year he became associate professor in 1884 and full professor of zoology at the University of Amsterdam.
In 1887 he became a Dutch citizen. 1888 Weber and his wife traveled to India and then to Sumatra, Java, Flores and Sulawesi, where they operated studies of freshwater flora and fauna. 1892 Weber as Director of the Zoological Museum of the University of Amsterdam ( ZMA ) appointed. In 1894 he studied during an expedition the freshwater fauna in South Africa. From 1899 to 1900 he headed the Siboga expedition, for which the posed by the Dutch government available gunboat Siboga was converted to research ship. During the expedition, Weber discovered 131 previously unknown species. He also drew a biogeographical boundary, the so-called Weber- line that the balance between the Oriental and Australasian vertebrate fauna reflects better than the Wallace line. The Weber- line runs along the Tanimbarese Islands and east of Timor.
After his return to the Netherlands Weber published the works of the mammals. Introduction to the anatomy and systematics of recenten and fossil Mammalia (1904 with an expanded edition in 1927 /28), Textbook of Biology for universities (1911 ) and 1911-1936 the seven-volume work, The Fishes of the Indo- Australian archipelago.
1927 was awarded the Alexander Agassiz Medal Max Weber, a U.S. price of Oceanography "for his distinguished research in the field of oceanography ." 1935 Weber was elected as a foreign member of the British Royal Society.
Influence of Weber on Eerbeek
The Webers have a big impact on the locality Eerbeek. Your estate and her house ( Huis te Eerbeek ) with the laboratory and its collection of exotic animals and plants is an attraction for biologists and botanists from all over the world. Max Weber founded a credit union and a beekeepers association, which organizes an annual bees market today. In addition, according to Professor Weber, a street and a bistro are named. After Weber's death, the estate of the Het Geldersch Landschap Foundation was bequeathed that it operates a hotel restaurant. The garden with exotic trees is accessible for the most part to the public. The grave of Anna and Max Weber in the cemetery of Eerbek was renewed in 2007.
According to Weber named taxa
According to Weber, among others, the following taxa are named: The Moluccas sailing lizard (1911 by Thomas Barbour ), the Weber- Dwarf Squirrel (1890 through Fredericus Anna Jentink ), Weber's Mudskipper (1935 by Bruno Eggert ), Siboglinum weberi (1914 by Maurice Caullery ), Chromis weberi (1928 by Henry Weed Fowler and Barton Appler Bean), Calyptronema maxweberi (1922 by John Govertus de Man), Caudacaecilia weberi (1920 by Edward Harrison Taylor), Peristedion weberi (1934 by James Leonard Brierley Smith ) and probably now extinct Poso Bungu goby ( Weberogobius amadi ).