Max Karl Wilhelm Weber is a Dutch zoologist of German origin, professor at the University of Amsterdam (1900), organizer and leader of a sea expedition to the Netherlands East India (now Indonesia) in 1899-1900.
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| Date of Birth | December 5, 1852 |
| Place of Birth | Bonn |
| Date of death | February 7, 1937 (84 years) |
| Place of death | Erbek |
| A country | German Empire, Netherlands |
| Scientific field | Zoology , biogeography |
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| Awards and prizes | Medal of Alexander Agassiz ( 1927 ) [d] |
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The researcher who described a number of zoological taxa . The names of these taxa (for indication of authorship) are accompanied by the designation " Weber " . |
Biography
Max Weber was the son of German Hermann Weber and Dutch Wilhelmina van der Kolk. When he was 2 years old, his father died. In 1873, he studied comparative anatomy at the University of Bonn . From 1875 to 1876, he attended the lectures of Carl Edward von Martens at the Humboldt University in Berlin. In 1877, he received a Ph.D. degree from the University of Bonn. In 1878, he passed the medicine exam and passed military service in Germany. In 1880, he taught human anatomy at the University of Utrecht . From May to October 1881, he participated in an expedition to the Barents Sea .
In 1883, he married the Dutch algologist and botany Anna Weber van Bosse (1852-1942). In the same year he became a professor of zoology at the University of Amsterdam.
In 1887 he became a citizen of the Netherlands. In 1888, Weber and his wife went to India and then to Sumatra, Java, Flores and Sulawesi, where they were engaged in research on freshwater flora and fauna. In 1892, Weber was appointed director of the Zoological Museum of the University of Amsterdam. In 1894, during an expedition to South Africa, he studied freshwater fauna. From 1899 to 1900, he led an expedition, for which the gunboat Siboga provided by the Netherlands government was converted into a research vessel. During this expedition, Weber discovered 131 unknown species of animals. Along with this, he established a biogeographical border, called the "Weber line," which, better than the Wallace line, reflected the balance between the Oriental and Australian regions. The Weber Line runs between the Molluksky Islands, the island of Buru and Sulawesi, between Timor in the Sunda Archipelago and Australia.
After his return to the Netherlands, Weber published Die Säugetiere. Einführung in die Anatomie und Systematik der recenten und fossilen Mammalia (in 1904 with an extended edition in the years 1927-1928), Lehrbuch der Biologie für Hochschulen (biology textbook for institutes, 1911), as well as the 7-volume work “The Fishes of the Indo-Australian archipelago. ”
In 1935, Weber was elected a foreign member of the Royal Society .
Many animal taxa are named after Weber, including the Weber Sailing Lizard ( Hydrosaurus weberi ), the Weber Dwarf Protein ( Prosciurillus weberi ), the Weber mud duster wei ( Periophthalmus weberi ), Siboglinum weberi , Chromis weberi , Caudacaecilia weberi weberi , weberi weberi , Siboglinum weberi , Siboglinum weberi , weberi weberi .
Major Works
- Weber M. Der Indo-Australische Archipel und die Geschichte seiner Tierwelt. - Jena: Gustav Fischer, 1902. - 46 S.
- Weber M. Die Säugetiere: Einführung in die Anatomie und Systematik der recenten und fossilen Mammalia. 2. Aufl. - Jena: Gustav Fischer. - Bd 1. Anatomischer Teil. - 1927. - 459 S.; Bd 2. Systematischer Teil. - 1928. - 922 S.
- Weber M. Primates: Anatomy, Systematics and Paleontology of Lemurs, Tarsiers and Monkeys / ed. and add. MF Nesturha. - M .; L .: Biomedgiz, 1936. - 366 p.
Literature
- D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson: Max Wilhelm Carl Weber. 1852-1937 . Obituary Notices of the Fellows of the Royal Society, Vol. 2, No. 6 (Jan., 1938), S. 347–355