Carl Eduard Adolph Gerstaecker

{{Short description|German zoologist and entomologist (1828–1895)}}

Carl Eduard Adolph Gerstaecker (30 August 1828 – 20 June 1895) was a German zoologist, entomologist and professor at the University of Berlin and afterwards the University of Greifswald.

Biography

Gerstaecker was born in Berlin, where he studied medicine and natural sciences, receiving a PhD in 1855 as a student of Johann Christoph Friedrich Klug. In 1856 he obtained his habilitation for zoology, and soon afterwards, became a curator at the Zoological Museum of Humboldt University. In 1864 he began work as a lecturer at the Landwirtschaftlichen Lehranstalt (Agricultural Educational Facility) in Berlin. In 1874, he became an associate professor for zoology at the University of Berlin, and in 1876, a professor of zoology at the University of Greifswald.[http://www.deutsche-biographie.de/pnd104183640.html Gerstaecker, Carl Eduard Adolph] In: Neue Deutsche Biographie (NDB). Band 6, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1964, {{ISBN|3-428-00187-7}}, S. 323. He died in Greifswald.

Works

Monographie der Endomychiden (1858) – Monograph on Endomychidae.
Handbuch der Zoologie (with Wilhelm Peters und Julius Victor Carus), Leipzig (1863-1875).
{{cite book|editor1-last=Carus|editor1-first=Julius Victor|editor2-last=Gerstaecker|editor2-first=C.E.A.|editor-link1=Julius Victor Carus|editor-link2=Carl Eduard Adolph Gerstaecker|title=Handbuch der zoologie. Zweiter Band|date=1863|publisher=Engelmann|location=Leipzig|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8m1MAAAAMAAJ}} (Arthropoda)
Arthropoda, in Klassen und Ordnungen des Thierreichs, (Section Arthropoda, in classes and orders of the Animals) 1866–93.
Beitrag zur Insekten-Fauna von Zanzibar. Parts [1]-3. (1866) – Contribution to the insect-fauna of Zanzibar.
Das Skelet des Döglings Hyperoodon Rostratus (Pont.) Ein Beitrag zur Osteologie der Cetaceen und zur vergleichenden Morphologie der Wirbelsäule, (1887) – The skeleton of the northern bottlenose whale. A contribution to the osteology of cetaceans and the comparative morphology of the spinal column.[http://catalog.hathitrust.org/Search/Home?lookfor=%22Gerstaecker,Adolph,1828-1895.%22&type=author&inst= HathiTrust Digital Library] published works
'On The Geographical Distribution and Varieties of the Honey-Bee, with Remarks upon the Exotic Honeybees of the Old World, The Annals and Magazine of Natural History, Zoology, Botany, and Geology (1863) vol.11, no.3, pp. 270-283.{{cite journal | url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/part/61184 | title=XXXI.—On the geographical distribution and varieties of the Honey-Bee, with remarks upon the Exotic Honey-Bees of the Old World | journal=The Annals and Magazine of Natural History; Zoology, Botany, and Geology | year=1863 | volume=11 | pages=270–283 | last1=Gerstaecker | first1=A. }}

References

External links

[https://de.wikisource.org/wiki/Adolph_Gerst%C3%A4cker Adolph Gerstäcker] de.Wikisource (bibliography)
[https://web.archive.org/web/20160701194027/http://www.mnf.uni-greifswald.de/index.php?id=1142 Zoological Institute of Greifswald University]

Category:German entomologists

Category:1828 births

Category:1895 deaths

Category:Scientists from Berlin

Category:Academic staff of the University of Greifswald

Category:19th-century German zoologists

Category:Zoologists from the Kingdom of Prussia