Karl Michahelles

Georg Wilhelm Christian Karl Michahelles ( born May 5, 1807 in Nuremberg, † August 15 1834 in Nafplion, Greece ) was a German zoologist and physician from Bavaria.

Michahelles toured large parts of Dalmatia and Croatia and was suitable at this time extensive knowledge of the birds of this area on. He died at the age of 27 years in Greece, where he studied the wildlife and practiced as a physician. He described, in addition to many other Mediterranean birds, Felsenkleiber ( Sitta neumayer ) and the Maskenschafstelze (Motacilla Feldegg ), which is considered Feldegg at some authors as a subspecies Motacilla flava.

He is also the first to describe the genus ribs Newts ( Pleurodeles ) and the type of the Spanish ribbed newt ( Pleurodeles waltl ). In the field of herpetology he also collaborated with the equally active in Munich Johann Georg Wagler, which he supported with some contributions in the an illustrated folio volume Descriptiones et icones amphibiorum.

The Mittelmeermöwe (Larus michahellis ) was named by Johann Friedrich Naumann ( 1780-1857 ) after him, where he took the name of Christopher Feldegg ( 1780-1845 ).

" Another (maybe the same thing ) species lives, according to Feldegg on the Adriatic Sea, especially on the coast of Dalmatia (see Isis Jahrg XS 1832 1107.. ); he calls L. michahellis. "

"I saw them only in the volatile K. K. Natural history cabinets to Vienna, they have also that of the Berlin Museum opposite can not compare to say with certainty whether they are identical. "

Feldegg in turn justified the naming as follows:

" As far as I could learn, however, it is still nowhere described, I would therefore like to propose in deference to the great merits of Mr. Doctor Michahelles to the natural history of Dalmatia to give this beautiful Meve his name under which I also since already some months, have, set up to distinguish it from their northern relatives in my collection. "

The Mainzer notary and ornithologist Carl Friedrich break (1789-1857) called components following Feldegg Glaucus michahellesii. In hindsight the nature refuted Johann Heinrich Blasius (1809-1870), that this handle to a new kind of science, but rather the relatively frequently encountered in Dalmatia herring gull (Larus argentatus ) Pontoppidan, 1763rd

Works

  • On Some Dalmatian vertebrates that occur in Western Asia at the same time. In: Isis by Oken. 1830, pp. 809-820 (online, accessed 26 August 2011 ).
  • The di Malo Scarlievo in historical and pathologically. JM stein bookstore, Nuremberg 1832 (online, accessed 26 August 2011 ).
  • New South European amphibians. In: Isis by Oken, XXIII, Leipzig 1830, pp. 189-195, pp. 806-809
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