Christoph Gottfried Andreas Giebel (13 September 1820 – 14 November 1881) was a German

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. 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

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Prussian Saxony The Province of Saxony (), also known as Prussian Saxony (), was a province of the Kingdom of Prussia and later the Free State of Prussia from 1816 until 1944. Its capital was Magdeburg. It was formed by the merger of various territories ceded ...

where his father, Gottfried Andreas Giebel was a distillery owner. His mother was Johanna née Kühlholz. He was educated at the

University of Halle Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg (), also referred to as MLU, is a public research university in the cities of Halle and Wittenberg. It is the largest and oldest university in the German state of Saxony-Anhalt. MLU offers German and i ...

where he graduated in 1845 with a

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on fossil hyenas. At Halle his instructors were

Ernst Friedrich Germar Ernst Friedrich Germar (3 November 1786 – 8 July 1853) was a German professor and director of the Mineralogy, Mineralogical Museum at Halle, Saxony-Anhalt, Halle. As well as being a mineralogist he was interested in entomology and particularly ...

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Hermann Burmeister Karl Hermann Konrad Burmeister (also known as Carlos Germán Conrado Burmeister) (15 January 1807 – 2 May 1892) was a German Argentine zoologist, entomologist, herpetologist, botany, botanist, and coleopterologist. He served as a professor at ...

. In 1858 he became professor of

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and director of the museum there. He died on 14 November 1881 at Halle. CGAGiebel 02

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). His 5-volume ''Naturgeschichte des Tierreichs'' (1859–1864) is considered to be a forerunner to ''

Brehms Tierleben ''Brehms Tierleben'' (English title: ''Brehm's Animal Life'') is a scientific reference book, first published in the 1860s by Alfred Edmund Brehm (1829–1884). It was one of the first modern popular zoological treatises. First published in ...

''. With

Wilhelm Heinrich Heintz Wilhelm Heinrich Heintz (4 November 1817 – 1 December 1880) was a German structural chemist from Berlin. He initially trained and worked as a pharmacist, from 1841 he studied sciences at the University of Berlin. He earned his PhD at Berlin ...

, he was editor of the ''Zeitschrift für Naturwissenschaften''. He is the taxonomic author of the extinct fish genera ''

Asima ''Trigonodon'' is an extinct genus of prehistoric ray-finned fish. Species include ''Trigonodon jugleri''. See also * Prehistoric fish * List of prehistoric bony fish This list of prehistoric bony fish is an attempt to create a comprehensiv ...

'' (1848), '' Elonichthys'' (1848), and ''Tharsis'' (1847).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

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External links

Thesaurus Ornithologiae (1872-1877)

Die Naturgeschichte des Thierreichs (1860)

Palaozoologie : Entwurf einer systematischen Darstellung der Fauna der Vorwelt
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Meyers Großes Konversations-Lexikon (1905)
1820 births 1881 deaths German paleontologists 19th-century German zoologists People from Quedlinburg Scientists from the Province of Saxony Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg alumni Academic staff of the Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg {{Germany-zoologist-stub