Franz Anton Menge

Franz Anton amount (* February 15, 1808 in Arnsberg, † January 27, 1880 in Danzig) was a German high school teacher, naturalist and Arachnologe.

Franz Anton amount was born February 15, 1808 to Arnsberg in Westphalia, where he attended high school. From May 1828 to April 1832 he studied at the University of Bonn Natural Sciences at Karl Dietrich von Münchow, Ludolph Christian Treviranus, August Goldfuß, Johann Jacob Noeggerath and Karl Gustav Bischof and acquired knowledge in physics, mineralogy, botany and zoology and in chemistry.

In half a year of probation in 1832 at the Gymnasium in Bonn and a three-year employment as a teacher in the upper middle school to Graudenz from Easter 1833 was followed on 22 June 1836, the appointment to the Petri School in Gdansk. He was also a member of the " Danziger nature-searching society," and was for many years secretary of the same. As more memberships are:

Among his writings are found except zoological treatises and botanical: "Over visible life movements of plants," geological " Geognostic remarks on the Danziger neighborhood " and paleontological studies of inclusions in amber: 'Survival characters primeval in amber trapped animals " (1856 ) he also gave the Brothers Grimm material for the first volumes of the German dictionary.

Anton amount was in Gdansk nearly 42 years as a teacher and received on August 11, 1868 the title of professor. His departure from the Petri School in 1877, in which he was awarded in recognition of his service to the school and the science of Red Eagle.

His extensive collection of amber inclusions he bequeathed 1880, the newly founded West Prussian Provincial Museum in Gdansk.

Anton Menges botanical author abbreviation is set.

Works

  • Catalogus plantarum phanerogamicarum regionis Grudentinensis et Gedanensis. Typis C. G. Böthe, Grudentiae 1839
  • Over the life of the arachnids. Danzig 1843
  • Geognostic remarks on the Danziger neighborhood. Danzig 1850
  • Myriapods the neighborhood of Danzig. Danzig 1851
  • Signs of life in the primeval Bernstein trapped animals. A. W. Kafemann, Gdansk 1856
  • About a Rhipidopteron and some other animals trapped in amber. Danzig 1866
  • About a Scorpion and two spiders in amber. Danzig 1866
  • With Heinrich Goeppert: The flora of amber, and their relations with the flora of the Tertiary formation and the present. First volume, Gdansk 1883, Second volume, Gdansk 1886, continued and finished by Hugo Conwentz doi: 10.5962/bhl.title.29891
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