Hermann von Maltzan
Hermann ( Friedrich Joachim ) von Maltzan, Freiherr zu Wartenberg and Penzlin, ( born December 18, 1843 in Rostock, † February 19, 1891 in Berlin, No. 738 of the gender count ) was a German explorer, naturalist and poet of the second half of the 19. century. He was an important collector of conches.
- 2.1 Natural History
- 2.2 Literary works
Biography
Training
Hermann von Maltzan originate in the house of Mecklenburg Rothenmoor Uradelsgeschlecht of Malt tooth / Maltzan; He was the youngest son of the chief administrative officer Friedrich von Maltzan, Baron Wartenberg and Penzlin (1783-1864) on Rothenmoor, Dahmen, Sagel and Federow. Julius von Maltzan was his brother. Up to the age of 16 he was educated by private tutors, who promoted his distinct natural history interest early on. At the age of 16, he moved to the School of Neubrandenburg, which he attended until graduation Easter 1861. During a summer vacation in 1863 in Trouville- sur -Mer in Normandy on the French coast of the English Channel, the plurality of there occurring shellfish solidified his interest in natural sciences and encouraged him fundamentally in his later life. The study initially started at the University of Rostock in autumn 1861 there remained only a short episode.
Collecting trips
In 1864 he gave up the student life in Rostock and embarked on his first collecting trip through southern France, Spain and also Italy and Egypt. With thousands of exhibits he returned back in 1865, as a result of the collective activity of trained and whether its malakozoologischen knowledge recognized expert. His own collection he enlarged by the purchase of important collections such as that of the merchant Landauer in Frankfurt and in 1873 the Consul Gruner in Bremen. In 1866 he founded the von Maltzan ` cal Natural History Museum of Mecklenburg, short Maltzaneum, and thus laid the foundation for today's Müritzeum in goods. From 1874 to 1880 he was Chairman of the Association of Friends of Natural History in Mecklenburg and was then appointed to his korrespierenden member.
He initially assumed alongside the cultivation of his inherited goods Federow and Schwarzenhof (both today districts of Kargow ) for goods these but sold in 1877 in order to concentrate entirely on his natural history interests and, attracted by the present Museum of Natural History, to Berlin to move to be able to. By 1878 he moved to Frankfurt am Main in the vicinity of the Senckenberg Nature Research Society and its major collections ( Senckenberg Museum ).
1879 to 1883 he undertook another major expedition, which initially led him back to the Iberian Peninsula, where he focuses on the hitherto largely unnoticed explored Algarve in Portugal. Next he traveled to West Africa, where he mainly worked in Senegal. In 1882 in Frankfurt, he was among the founders of the German Colonial Association. Then his way through Greece and Crete took him to the Mediterranean coast of the Asian part of Turkey.
- By Hermann von Maltzan first described Conchylien
Drillia ballista
Drillia tripter
In 1883 he returned and lived first in Darmstadt, back in 1885 to Berlin, where he also began his extensive literary activity that withdraws from the meaning behind his natural history collecting. The numerous spectacles were usually not published under his real name.
Works
Natural history
- Go to Cap S. Vincent. Journey through the Kingdom of Algarve. Frankfurt 1880.