Franz Martin Hilgendorf
Franz Martin Hilgendorf ( born December 5, 1839 in Neudamm (Mark Brandenburg); † July 5, 1904 in Berlin) was a German zoologist and paleontologist.
Life
Franz Hilgendorf was born on December 5, 1839 in Neudamm (Mark Brandenburg). He attended from 1851 to 1854 the Gymnasium in Königsberg (Neumark ) and then the high school " to horror monastery" in Berlin, from which he graduated in 1858 with the Abitur. During the school year he went scientific studies by in the vicinity. In October 1859 he enrolled at the University of Berlin in philology. There he spent a "wild student life ", which culminated in co-founding the fraternity Brandenburgia ( since 1875 Arminia ). After four semesters, he moved to Tübingen, where he accompanied during the summer of 1862 Friedrich August von Quenstedt to an excavation in the Steinheim Basin. In May 1863 Hilgendorf received his doctorate with his thesis " Contributions to the Knowledge of the Süßwasserkalkes to Steinheim ". He continued his studies continued at the Zoological Museum in Berlin. He worked in the chemical laboratory and learned the basics of museology.
With studies of fossil snails of the species Planorbis multiformis (now Gyraulus trochiformis steel ) from the Steinheim Basin him the first paleontological evidence of Darwinian evolution theory succeeded ( continuous transition of one species into another ) [Note 1]
From January 1868 Hilgendorf was appointed as successor Brehm with the management of the Zoological Gardens together with Hamburg aquarium, but remained only until 1 November 1870. From April 1871 to 31 December 1872, he worked as a librarian at the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina, which he 1877 belonged as a member, and professor at the Polytechnic School in Dresden. In 1873 he received the recommendation of the Prussian Ministry of Culture 's reputation as a lecturer at the Imperial Academy of Medicine of Tokyo, where he was the next three years worked. In Tokyo, he founded the German Society for Nature and People of Eastern Asia, in whose journal he published from 1873 to 1876 a number of works for the Japanese fauna. In December 1876 Hilgendorf returned from Japan and was an assistant to Peter at the Berlin Museum of Natural History in the Department of worms and crabs. In 1880 he was hired as a curator and married in the same year Julia anthing, with whom he raised them three children. His wife died early in the year 1899. 1883 he took charge of the fish, which he exclusively until his death, served as curator from 1896.
Hilgendorf was suffering from a stomach disease that made him unable to work from the summer of 1903 and he died on July 5, 1904.
Note
Works (over Planorbis multiformis )
- Planorbis multiformis in the Steinheim Süßwasserkalk. An example of change in shape over time. Monthly reports from the Royal Academy of Sciences in Berlin, 1866.
- Letter to E. von Martens. Journal Geological Society 27, 1875
- Once again Planorbis multiformis. Journal Geological Society 29, 1877
- New research in Steinheim. Journal Geological Society 29, 1877.
- New studies on Planorbis multifornis. Days Journal of Natural Science meeting in Munich, 1877
- For the issue of Planorbis multiformis. Proceedings of the Society of Research- natural friends Berlin, 1877.
- For the issue of Planorbis multiformis. cosmos 1879
- Discussion of the newly released Scripture: The genesis of the tertiary species of Planorbis at Steinheim by A. Hyatt. Proceedings of the Society of Research- natural friends Berlin, 1881.
- The transition of Planorbis multiformis trochiformis to Planorbis multiformis oxystomus. Archives of Natural History 67 booklet ( Festschrift for Eduard von Martens ) Berlin, 1901