See also: Peters

Wilhelm Carl Hartwich Peters (or Wilhem Carl Hartwig Peters ) is a zoologist and a German Explorateur , born the April 22nd 1815 in Coldenbüttel, close to Eiderstedt in the Schleswig and dead the April 20th 1883 with Berlin.

Wire of Pasteur, Peters starts, in 1834, its studies of Médecine and Natural history at the university of Copenhagen then to that of Berlin where it will pass the remainder of his career. After being diploma in 1838, it spends eighteen months to work on the ground with Henri Milne Edwards (1800-1885) in the Mediterranean area . On its return to Berlin, he becomes the assistant of the large anatomist Johannes Peter Müller (1801-1858).

He immediately works out the details of a great project, an exploration of the Mozambique, for which he has the enthusiastic support of Müller and Alexander von Humboldt (1769-1859). Peters leaves Berlin in September 1842 and reached the Angola then Mozambique in June 1843. It explores the area during four years and visit in particular, in addition to the interior of Mozambique, Zanzibar, the the Comoros and Madagascar. It also comes to the Cape, mainly to recover from a disease contracted at the time of its excursions. It sets out again finally in Europe in August 1847 via the India and the Egypt. It report/ratio of immense collection and publishes, in 1852 and 1852, in four large volumes, the report of its forwarding under the title of Naturwissenschaftliche Reise nach Mossambique… in den Jahren 1842 (a) 1848 ausgeführt .

In 1847 it becomes prosector at the Institute of anatomy of the university of Berlin then professor-assistant in 1849. In 1856, he becomes the assistant of the director of the zoological Muséum of the university, Martin Heinrich Karl Lichtenstein (1780-1857). It replaces it with dead of this last and contributes to the enrichment of the collections of the natural history museum which becomes one of most important in the world. Thus, the herpetologic collections triple of volume and pass from 3.700 specimens to 10.500, of a size comparable with those of Paris or London.

He also teaches the zoology starting from 1858 and has a considerable influence. Darwinien convinced, its work is the synthesis of anatomical and zoological research. It publishes nearly 400 articles on the most varied groups, Vertébré S or Invertébré S.

It described astonishing it Lézard by the family of the Xantusiidae, in 1863 with Juan Gundlach.

List partial of the publications

• 1838 : Observationes AD anatomiam Cheloniorum , thesis, Berlin.
• 1852 - 1868: Naturwissenschaftliche Reise nach Mossambique, auf Befehl seiner Majestät of Königs Friedrich Wilhelm IV. in den Jahren 1842 (a) 1848 ausgeführt , Berlin.
• 1854 : “Diagnosen neuer Batrachier, welche zusammen put DER früher (24. Juli und 17. August) gegebenen Übersicht der Schlangen und Eidechsen mitgetheilt werden”. Ber. Bekanntmach. Geeignet. Verhandl. Königl. - Preuss. Akad. Wiss. Berlin : 614-628
• 1862 : Die Heidflächen Norddeutschlands , Hanover.
• 1854 : Mittheilung über die Süsswasserfische von Mossambique. Monatsb. Akad. Wiss. Berlin: 783.
• 1863 - 1875: Handbuch DER Zoology with Julius Victor Carus (1823-1903) and Carl Eduard Adolph Gerstäcker (1828-1895), Leipzig.
• 1863 : “Eine Übersicht DER von Hrn. Richard Schomburgk year das zoologische Museum eingesandten Amphibian, aus Buchsfelde EIB Adelaide in Südaustralien”. Monatsberichte der Königlich Preussischen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin , April: 228-236.
• 1869 : “Eine Mittheilung über neue Gattungen und Arten von Eidechsen”. Monatsberichte der Königlich Preussischen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin : 57-66.
• 1870 : “Beitrag zur Kenntnis DER herpetologische Fauna von Südafrika”. Monatsberichte der Königlich Preussischen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin : 110-115.
• 1870 : “Eine Mitteilung über neue Amphibian ( Hemidactylus, Urosaura, Tropidolepisma, Geophis, Uriechis, Scaphiophis, Hoplocephlaus, Rana, Entomogossus, Cystignathus, Hylodes, Arthroleptis, Phyllobates, Cophomantis ) of Königlich-zoologischen Natural history musea”. Monatsberichte der Königlich Preussischen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin : 641-652
• 1872 : “Über eine neue Gattung von Fischen aus der Familie der Cataphracti Cuv., Scombrocottus salmoneus , von der Vancouvers”. Insel. Monatsb. Akad. Wiss. Berlin 1872: 568-570.
• 1880 : “Über die von Hrn. J. Mr. Hildebrandt auf Nossi-Be und Madagascar gasammelten Säugethiere und Amphibian”. Monatsberichte der Königlich Preussischen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin : 508-511.
• 1883 : “Neue Geckonen, darunter drei Arten von Scalabotes, aus der Sammlung of in Madagascar verstorbenen Reisenden J. Mr. Hildebrandt”. Sitzungsber. Ges. naturf. Freunde Berlin 1883 (2): 27-29.

Source

• Kraig Adler (1989). Contributions to the History off Herpetology, Society for the study off amphibians and reptiles: 202 p.