Emil Adolf Rossmässler (''Emil Adolf Roßmäßler'', ''Emil Adolph Roßmäßler'') (March 3, 1806 in
Leipzig
Leipzig (, ; ; Upper Saxon: ; ) is the most populous city in the States of Germany, German state of Saxony. The city has a population of 628,718 inhabitants as of 2023. It is the List of cities in Germany by population, eighth-largest city in Ge ...
– April 8, 1867 in Leipzig) was a German
biologist
A biologist is a scientist who conducts research in biology. Biologists are interested in studying life on Earth, whether it is an individual Cell (biology), cell, a multicellular organism, or a Community (ecology), community of Biological inter ...
. With
Otto Eduard Vincenz Ule
Otto Eduard Vincenz Ule (22 January 1820, in Frankfurt (Oder), Lossow – 7 August 1876, in Halle an der Saale) was a German writer, known for his popularization of natural sciences, and liberal politician. He was the father of botanist Ernst He ...
and
Karl Johann August Müller, he was co-founder of the journal ''Die Natur'' in 1852 and 1859 the sole editor of the journal ''Aus der Heimath''. Rossmässler was a pioneer and the leading advocate of
popularizing science in nineteenth-century Germany. He also belonged to the early writers on the building and maintenance of freshwater
aquarium
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s.
Rossmässler edited the
exsiccata
Exsiccata (Latin, ''gen.'' -ae, ''plur.'' -ae) is a work with "published, uniform, numbered set of preserved specimens distributed with printed labels". Typically, exsiccatae are numbered collections of dried herbarium Biological specimen, spe ...
''Plantae Lipsienses, Weidanae et Tharandtinae'' (c. 1831).
Publications
Rossmässler's publications included:
* 1832: ''Systematische Übersicht des Tierreiches''
* 1835–1839: ''Iconographie der Land- und Süßwassermollusken'' (3 volumes) - (Iconography of land Mollusca and freshwater Mollusca)
** 1835–1837: ''Iconographie der Land- und Süßwasser-Mollusken, mit vorzüglicher Berücksichtigung der europäischen noch nicht abgebildeten Arten''. Volume 1. - pp. Heft 1:
I-VI
1-6 1–132,
-2 Heft 2:
-2 1-26, Heft 3:
-3 1-3
** 1838–1844: ''Iconographie der Land- und Süßwassermollusken, mit vorzüglicher Berücksichtigung der europäischen noch nicht abgebildeten Arten''. Volume 2. - pp. (4+44 pp.), (4+46 pp.), (4+15 pp.), (4+37 pp.), Taf. 31–60. Dresden, Leipzig. (Arnold).
** 1854–1859 - ''Iconographie der Land- und Süsswassermollusken Europa's, mit vorzüglicher Berücksichtigung kritischer und noch nicht abgebildeter Arten''. Volume 3. - pp. I-VIII, 1-39, I-VIII, 1-77,
I-VIII, 1–140, Taf. 61–90. Leipzig.
* 1847: "Helix ligata Müll. Eine kritische Bemerkung". ''Zeitschrift für Malakozoologie'' 4: 161–164. Cassel.
*1850–53: ''Der Mensch im Spiegel der Natur''
* 1853: "Kurzer Bericht über meine malakozoologische Reise durch einen Theil des südöstlichen Spanien". ''Zeitschrift für Malakozoologie'' 10 (11): 161–171. Cassel.
*1856: ''Die Geschichte der Erde''
* 1857: "Diagnoses novorum Heliceorum". ''Malakozoologische Blätter'' 4: 38–41. Cassel.
* 1858: with Bernhard A. Auerswald,
Botanische Unterhaltungen zum Verständniß der heimathlichen Flora''. Leipzig, Hermann Mendelssohn.
* 1865: ''Volksbildung''
*1908:
''.
References
Further reading
*
Andreas Daum
Andreas W. Daum is a German-American historian who specializes in modern German and transatlantic history, as well as the history of knowledge and global exploration.
Daum received his Ph.D. summa cum laude in 1995 from the Ludwig Maximilian Unive ...
, "Science, Politics, and Religion: Humboldtian Thinking and the Transformations of Civil Society in Germany, 1830–1870", in ''Osiris'', no. 17: ''Science and Civil Society'', ed. Tom Broman and Lynn Nyhart. Chicago University Press, 2002, 107–140.
* Andreas Daum, ''Wissenschaftspopularisierung im 19. Jahrhundert: Bürgerliche Kultur, naturwissenschaftliche Bildung und die deutsche Öffentlichkeit, 1848–1914''. ("Popular Science in the Nineteenth Century: Middle-Class Culture, the Sciences, and the Public in Germany") Munich: Oldenbourg, 2002, 617 pp. (including biography and bibliography of works)
External links
* https://web.archive.org/web/20081011092102/http://www.uni-leipzig.de/campus2009/jubilaeen/2006/rossmaessler.html - in German, with portrait
1806 births
1867 deaths
Scientists from Leipzig
German religious humanists
19th-century German biologists
German malacologists
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