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Simon Albrecht Poppe
Simon Albrecht Poppe (8 June 1847 – 17 February 1907) was a German zoologist and naturalist. Unable to complete formal studies due to poor health, he privately conducted research, particularly on the arthropod ectoparasites of birds and mammals. Life and work Poppe was born in Vegesack where his father, shipping captain Georg (Schorse) Poppe (1818–1875), passed on an interest in natural history early in his life. His father brought specimens from his travels and an uncle Alfred Ludwig (Blasius) Poppe worked in Valparaiso for the natural history company of Godeffroy. His mother Margarete Jaburg cared for him most of the time when the father was away and he was educated first at Vegesack and when the parents moved to Bremen he went to the grammar school there. In 1868 the family moved to Bremerhaven where he recovered from a nervous breakdown. He then joined the University of Tübingen in 1868 to study medicine. He attended the classes of Emil Dursy, Leydig and Hegelmaier. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
S A Poppe
S, or s, is the nineteenth letter of the Latin alphabet, used in the English alphabet, the alphabets of other western European languages and other latin alphabets worldwide. Its name in English is ''ess'' (pronounced ), plural ''esses''. History Northwest Semitic šîn represented a voiceless postalveolar fricative (as in 'ip'). It originated most likely as a pictogram of a tooth () and represented the phoneme via the acrophonic principle. Ancient Greek did not have a "sh" phoneme, so the derived Greek letter Sigma () came to represent the voiceless alveolar sibilant . While the letter shape Σ continues Phoenician ''šîn'', its name ''sigma'' is taken from the letter ''Samekh'', while the shape and position of ''samekh'' but name of ''šîn'' is continued in the '' xi''. Within Greek, the name of ''sigma'' was influenced by its association with the Greek word (earlier ), "to hiss". The original name of the letter "Sigma" may have been ''san'', but due to the earl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
University Of Göttingen
The University of Göttingen, officially the Georg August University of Göttingen (, commonly referred to as Georgia Augusta), is a Public university, public research university in the city of Göttingen, Lower Saxony, Germany. Founded in 1734 by George II of Great Britain, George II, King of Great Britain and Electorate of Hanover, Elector of Hanover, it began instruction in 1737 and is recognized as the oldest university in Lower Saxony. Recognized for its historic and traditional significance, the university has affiliations with 47 Nobel Prize winners by its own count. Previously backed by the German Universities Excellence Initiative, the University of Göttingen is a member of the U15 (German Universities), U15 Group of major German research universities, underscoring its strong research profile. It is also a part of prominent international and European academic networks such as Guild of European Research-Intensive Universities, The Guild, the ENLIGHT alliance, and the Hek ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1847 Births
Events January–March * January 4 – Samuel Colt sells his first revolver pistol to the U.S. government. * January 13 – The Treaty of Cahuenga ends fighting in the Mexican–American War in California. * January 16 – John C. Frémont is appointed Governor of the new California Territory. * January 17 – St. Anthony Hall fraternity is founded at Columbia University, New York City. * January 30 – Yerba Buena, California, is renamed San Francisco. * February 5 – A rescue effort, called the First Relief, leaves Johnson's Ranch to save the ill-fated Donner Party of California-bound migrants who became snowbound in the Sierra Nevada earlier this winter. Some have resorted to survival by cannibalism. * February 22 – Mexican–American War: Battle of Buena Vista – 5,000 American troops under General Zachary Taylor use their superiority in artillery to drive off 15,000 Mexican troops under Antonio López de Santa Anna, defeating the Mexicans the next day. * Febr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hermann Rehberg
Hermann or Herrmann may refer to: * Hermann (name), list of people with this name * Arminius, chieftain of the Germanic Cherusci tribe in the 1st century, known as Hermann in the German language * Éditions Hermann, French publisher * Hermann, Missouri, a town on the Missouri River in the United States ** Hermann AVA, Missouri wine region * The German SC1000 bomb of World War II was nicknamed the "Hermann" by the British, in reference to Hermann Göring * Herrmann Hall, the former Hotel Del Monte, at the Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, California * Memorial Hermann Healthcare System, a large health system in Southeast Texas * The Herrmann Brain Dominance Instrument (HBDI), a system to measure and describe thinking preferences in people * Hermann station (other), stations of the name * Hermann (crater), a small lunar impact crater in the western Oceanus Procellarum * Hermann Huppen, a Belgian comic book artist * Hermann 19, an American sailboat design built by Ted Herm ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Friedrich Brüggemann
Friedrich Brüggemann (1850, Bremen – 1878, London ) was a German zoologist and entomologist Friedrich Brüggemann was an Assistant in the zoological Institute in Jena Later he was engaged in work on the corals in the collection of the Natural History Museum, London, British Museum. He died of lung haemorrhage at the age of 28. Works Coleoptera *1873 "Systematisches Verzeichniss der bisher in der Gegend von Bremen gefundenen Käferarten". ''Abhandl. Naturw. Ver. Bremen'', 3: 441–524. Corals *1877. "Notes on Stony Corals in the Collection of the British Museum". ''Journal of Natural History, Annals and Magazine of Natural History''. Ser. 4, Vol. xix. pp. 415–422. *1879 "Corals. An account of the petrological, botanical, and zoological collections made in Kerguelen's Land and Rodriguez during the Transit of Venus expeditions, carried out by order of Her Majesty's government in the years 1874–75". ''Phil Trans R Soc Lond'' 168: 569–579. Birds *1876 Beiträge zur Or ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Otto Finsch
Friedrich Hermann Otto Finsch (8 August 1839, Warmbrunn – 31 January 1917, Braunschweig) was a German ethnographer, natural history, naturalist and colonial explorer. He is known for a two-volume monograph on the parrots of the world which earned him a doctorate. He also wrote on the people of New Guinea and was involved in plans for German colonization in Southeast Asia. Several species of bird (such as ''Oenanthe finschii'', ''Iole finschii'', ''Psittacula finschii'') are named after him as also the town of Finschhafen in Morobe Province, Papua New Guinea and a crater on the Moon. Biography Finsch was born at Cieplice Śląskie-Zdrój, Bad Warmbrunn in Silesia to Mortiz Finsch and Mathilde née Leder. His father was in the glass trade and he too trained as a glass painter. An interest in birds led him to use his artistic skills for the purpose. Finsch went to Budapest in 1857 and studied at the Eötvös Loránd University, Royal Hungarian University, earning money by preparing ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Franz Georg Philipp Buchenau
Franz Georg Philipp Buchenau (12 January 1831 – 23 April 1906) was a German botanist and phytogeographer who was a native of Kassel. He specialized in flora of northwestern Germany. He studied at the Universities of Marburg and Göttingen, and from 1855 was a schoolteacher in Bremen. In 1864 he was co-founder of the association for natural sciences in Bremen. Buchenau was the author of works involving the regional flora of the East Frisian Islands, ''Flora der Ostfriesischen Inseln'', and of Bremen/Oldenburg, ''Flora von Bremen und Oldenburg''. He also published a comprehensive monograph on the botanical family Juncaceae Juncaceae is a family of flowering plants, commonly known as the rush family. It consists of 8 genera and about 464 known species of slow-growing, rhizomatous, herbaceous monocotyledonous plants that may superficially resemble grasses and ..., titled ''Monographia Juncacearum''. References Biographical Dictionary of OstfrieslandFranz Georg Phil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alexander Keith Jr
Alexander () is a male name of Greek origin. The most prominent bearer of the name is Alexander the Great, the king of the Ancient Greek kingdom of Macedonia who created one of the largest empires in ancient history. Variants listed here are Aleksandar, Aleksander, Oleksandr, Oleksander, Aleksandr, and Alekzandr. Related names and diminutives include Iskandar, Alec, Alek, Alex, Alexsander, Alexandre, Aleks, Aleksa, Aleksandre, Alejandro, Alessandro, Alasdair, Sasha, Sandy, Sandro, Sikandar, Skander, Sander and Xander; feminine forms include Alexandra, Alexandria, and Sasha. Etymology The name ''Alexander'' originates from the (; 'defending men' or 'protector of men'). It is a compound of the verb (; 'to ward off, avert, defend') and the noun (, genitive: , ; meaning 'man'). The earliest attested form of the name, is the Mycenaean Greek feminine anthroponym , , (/Alexandra/), written in the Linear B syllabic script. Alaksandu, alternatively called ''Alakasandu'' or ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Disaster
The Thomas Disaster known in German media as Thomas Katastrophe was an explosion incident involving the North German Lloyd steamer SS ''Mosel'' at Bremerhaven docks on the 11 December 1875. It killed around 81 people and more than 200 were injured. It was the result of a dynamite-based explosive with a timing device that accidentally went off when loading the explosive package into the ship. The bombing was part of a plan to commit insurance fraud by the Canadian Alexander Keith Jr. who, at the time going by the name of Thomas or Thomassen. He shot himself shortly after the explosion and died a few days later, confessing to the crime during interrogations by the German police. Incident The steamship ''Mosel'' belonged to the North German Lloyd company and on December 11, 1875 it was to set off for New York under Captain Leist, the originally assigned captain Hermann Neynaber having taken ill. It had 400 passengers mostly from Germany who had already boarded and it was towed by t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Christoph Friedrich Hegelmaier
Christoph Friedrich Hegelmaier (4 September 1833 – 26 May 1906) was a German physician and botanist who was a native of Sulzbach, Württemberg. In 1857 he earned his doctorate from the University of Tübingen, and later was a military doctor in Ulm. In 1864 he received his habilitation at Tübingen, where in 1866 he became an associate professor of botany. He was an authority on the plant family Lemnaceae, and in 1868 published the treatise ''Die Lemnaceen: Eine monographische Untersuchung''. Other important works by Hegelmaier include a monograph of the genus '' Callitriche'', called ''Monographie der Gattung Callitriche'' (1864), and a highly regarded study involving plant embryology, titled ''Vergleichenden Untersuchungen über Entwicklung dikotyledoner Keime'' ("Comparative studies on development of dicotyledonous seeds", 1878). He issued an exsiccata-like series called ''Iter Gallo-Hispanicum (1875)''. Today his herbarium is kept at the Museum of Natural History in Stu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Steamship Mosel Bombed 1875
A steamship, often referred to as a steamer, is a type of steam-powered vessel, typically ocean-faring and seaworthy, that is propelled by one or more steam engines that typically move (turn) propellers or Paddle steamer, paddlewheels. The first steamships came into practical usage during the early 19th century; however, there were exceptions that came before. Steamships usually use the ship prefix, prefix designations of "PS" for ''paddle steamer'' or "SS" for ''screw steamer'' (using a propeller or screw). As paddle steamers became less common, "SS" is incorrectly assumed by many to stand for "steamship". Ships powered by internal combustion engines use a prefix such as "MV" for ''motor vessel'', so it is not correct to use "SS" for most modern vessels. As steamships were less dependent on wind patterns, new trade routes opened up. The steamship has been described as a "major driver of the first wave of trade globalization (1870–1913)" and contributor to "an increase in int ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
