Christoph Gottfried Andreas Giebel

{{Short description|German zoologist and palaeontologist (1820–1881)}}

Christoph Gottfried Andreas Giebel (13 September 1820 – 14 November 1881) was a German zoologist and palaeontologist. He was a professor of zoology at the University of Halle where he managed the zoology collections at the museum. His interests were in systematics and paleontology and he opposed Darwinian evolution. He published several works including Palaozoologie (1846); Fauna der Vorwelt (1847-1856); Deutschlands Petrefacten (1852); Odontographie (1855); Lehrbuch der Zoologie (1857); and Thesaurus ornithologiae (1872-1877).

Biography

Giebel was born on 13 September 1820 in Quedlinburg, Prussian Saxony where his father, Gottfried Andreas Giebel was a distillery owner. His mother was Johanna née Kühlholz. He was educated at the University of Halle where he graduated in 1845 with a Ph.D. on fossil hyenas. At Halle his instructors were Ernst Friedrich Germar and Hermann Burmeister.{{cite book|author=Pfannenstiel, Max|chapter=Giebel, Christoph|title= Neue Deutsche Biographie|volume= 6 |year=1964|page= 370 |url= https://www.deutsche-biographie.de/pnd116616660.html|language=de}} In 1858 he became professor of zoology and director of the museum there. He died on 14 November 1881 at Halle.{{sfn|Chisholm|1911}}{{cite journal|last=Anonymous|year=1881|title=Christoph Gottfried Andreas Giebel. Ein Lebensbild.|url=https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33006522|journal=Zeitschrift für die gesammten Naturwissenschaften|volume=54|pages=613–637|language=de}}

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Works

Giebel's chief publications were Palaeozoologie (1846); Fauna der Vorwelt (1847-1856); Deutschlands Petrefacten (1852); Odontographie (1855); Lehrbuch der Zoologie (1857); Thesaurus ornithologiae (1872-1877).{{sfn|Chisholm|1911}} His 5-volume Naturgeschichte des Tierreichs (1859–1864) is considered to be a forerunner to Brehms Tierleben.[http://www.catalogus-professorum-halensis.de/giebelchristiangottfried.html Christian Gottfried Giebel] Catalogus Professorum Halensis With Wilhelm Heinrich Heintz, he was editor of the Zeitschrift für Naturwissenschaften.[https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_oqPOAAAAMAAJ Zeitschrift für Naturwissenschaften] Internet Archive

He is the taxonomic author of the extinct fish genera Asima (1848),[https://www.gbif.org/species/4840444 Asima Giebel, 1848] GBIF Elonichthys (1848),[https://www.gbif.org/species/4839363 Elonichthys Giebel, 1848] GBIF and Tharsis (1847).[http://taxonomicon.taxonomy.nl/TaxonTree.aspx?src=7229&id=1268839 Taxon: Genus †Tharsis] Taxonomicon[https://books.google.com/books?id=-S4iAQAAMAAJ&dq=Elonichthys+Christoph+Giebel&pg=PA233 The Genera of Fishes ...: From Linnæus to Cuvier, 1758-1833] By David Starr Jordan, Barton Warren Evermann He also described many species of ectoparasitic birdlice.

References

Attribution:

{{EB1911|wstitle=Giebel, Christoph Gottfried Andreas|volume=12|page=2}}

External links

[https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/105143 Thesaurus Ornithologiae (1872-1877)]
[https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/15294 Die Naturgeschichte des Thierreichs (1860)]
[https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/39515 Palaozoologie : Entwurf einer systematischen Darstellung der Fauna der Vorwelt ]
{{Internet Archive author |sname=Christoph Gottfried Andreas Giebel}}
[http://www.zeno.org/Meyers-1905/A/Giebel,+Christoph+Gottfried Meyers Großes Konversations-Lexikon (1905)] {{in lang|de}}

Category:1820 births

Category:1881 deaths

Category:German paleontologists

Category:19th-century German zoologists

Category:People from Quedlinburg

Category:Scientists from the Province of Saxony

Category:Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg alumni

Category:Academic staff of the Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg