Martin Lichtenstein

See also: Lichtenstein

Martin Heinrich Carl von Lichtenstein is a Médecin, a Explorateur and a German Zoologiste , born the January 10th 1780 with Hamburg and dead the September 2nd 1857.

His/her father is the zoologist Anton August Heinrich Lichtenstein (1753-1816). Lichtenstein studies medicine with Iéna and Helmstadt. Between 1802 and 1806, it travels in the south of the Africa and becomes the personal doctor of the governor of the Cape. In 1810, it publishes Reisen in südlichen Africa .

It obtains the pulpit of zoology of the university of Berlin in 1811 and becomes the director of the zoological Musée of Berlin in 1813 where it succeeds Johann Karl Wilhelm It (1775-1813).

In 1841, Lichtenstein is responsible for the creation of the zoological garden of Berlin and persuades Frederic-Guillaume IV of Prussia to give its breeding of Faisan S.

He works in particular on the collections brought back by Ferdinand Deppe (1794-1861). But its work taxinomic is not great quality, it thus relatively little worries to exploit the publications in French language or English, it is satisfied to name the species according to criteria which it considers satisfactory. Moreover, it does not try hard to make appear descriptions of these species, leaving with others the care to do it, like Johann Georg Wagler (1800-1832), John Gould (1804-1881), Christian Ludwig Brehm (1787-1864), etc

Lichtenstein is replaced with the direction of the natural history museum by Jean Louis Cabanis (1816-1906).

Source

Erwin Stresemann (1954). Ferdinand Deep' S travels in Mexico City, 1824-1829, The Condor , 56: 86-92.

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