Kaiserling, Eugene von

Taxonomy of wildlife
Taxonomy of wildlife
	The researcher who described a number of zoological taxa . The names of these taxa (to indicate authorship) are accompanied by the designation " Keyserling " .;

Eugene von Kaiserling
Eugene von Kaiserling
	Eugen von keyserling
Date of Birth	March 22, 1832
Place of Birth	Cut, now Pakruojis , Lithuania
Date of death	April 4, 1889 (57 years old)
A place of death	Ernsdorf Manor, near Reichenbach, now Dzierzoniow , Poland
A country	German Union, German Empire
Scientific field	arachnology
Alma mater	;

Eugene von Keyserling ( Eugen von Keyserling ; 1832–1889) is a German arachnologist.

Content

1 Biography
2 Proceedings
3 notes
4 Literature

Biography

Kaiserling studied cameral sciences and zoology at the University of Dorpat . He participated in Russian expeditions to the Caucasus and, in particular, in 1858-1859 on a scientific expedition to Khorasan . As part of this expedition, he described not only spiders, but also Iranian species of freshwater fish (for example, Squalius latus ). He traveled to England, France and Algeria . At this time, he met his future wife Margaret, the daughter of the historian and Bavarian ambassador to Geneva, Wilhelm von Dönniges . As a mediator, along with Wilhelm Arndt, he was also involved in the background of the duel between Ferdinand Lassalle and the Romanian Prince Janko von Rakovits in 1864 near Geneva. After his marriage in 1864 to the daughter of Dönniges, Kaiserling left a plan to move to America and acquired an estate in Lower Silesia to engage in agriculture there. However, in the future he devoted himself to a special topic, spiders, copies of which he received from the German-American arachnologist George Marx and other friends. After the early death of Kaiserling, Marx prepared for publication his work Die Spinnen Amerikas. Today this book is of antique value to specialists, since it contains drawings made by the author.

The Kaiserling spider collection covered more than 10,000 species and after his death she moved to the Natural History Museum of London, after the Natural History Museum in Berlin in 1890 refused the offer of the Kaiserling widow to purchase a collection for 15,000 Reichsmarks ^[1] .

In honor of the scientist, the species of orbiting spiders Argiope keyserlingi is named.

Proceedings

He finished the book of Ludwig Koch Die Arachniden Australiens (1871-1883).
Die Spinnen Amerikas (Herausgeber post mortem: George Marx). Bauer & Raspe, Nürnberg 1880-1893, 6 Teile in 4 Bänden.

Notes

↑ Carsten Kretschmann: Räume öffnen sich - Naturhistorische Museen im Deutschland des 19. Jahrhunderts. Frankfurt 2004, ISBN 3-05-004202-8 , S. 145 ( Digitalisat )

Literature

Friedrich G. Barth: Sinne und Verhalten - aus dem Leben einer Spinne. Springer 2001, ISBN 3-540-67716-X , S. 8 ff.

[1] Carsten Kretschmann: Räume öffnen sich - Naturhistorische Museen im Deutschland des 19. Jahrhunderts. Frankfurt 2004, ISBN 3-05-004202-8 , S. 145 ( Digitalisat )