Karl Jordan ( German: Heinrich Ernst Karl Jordan ; December 7, 1861 , Germany - January 12, 1959 , UK ) - German and English entomologist , a major specialist in butterflies , beetles and fleas . Academician of the Royal Society of Great Britain (1932), President of the Royal Entomological Society of London in 1929-1930. One of the largest taxonomists in the world, described more than 3,000 new species of animals whose names still retain his signature ( Jordan , or KJ ) [1] .
| Karl Jordan | |
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| him. Heinrich ernst karl jordany | |
 Karl jordan | |
| Date of Birth | December 7, 1861 |
| Place of Birth | Almstedt , Germany |
| Date of death | January 12, 1959 (97 years old) |
| A place of death | Tring , Hertfordshire , England |
| A country | German Union, German Empire, Great Britain |
| Scientific field | entomology |
| Alma mater | University of Gottingen |
| Academic rank | Professor |
| Known as | entomologist |
| Awards and prizes | member of the Royal Society of London |
| Taxonomy of wildlife | |
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The researcher who described a number of zoological taxa . The names of these taxa (to indicate authorship) are accompanied by the designation " Jordan " . |
Content
- 1 Biography
- 2 Recognition
- 3 notes
- 4 Literature
Biography
Born on December 7, 1861 in Almstedt ( Kingdom of Hanover , now Lower Saxony , Germany ). After graduating from the Andreanum Grammar School in Hildesheim (where he studied in 1876-1882), he studied botany and zoology at the University of Gottingen . In 1882 joined the fraternity of Holzminda [2] . Since 1893, he began working at the Walter Rothschild Museum in Thring , where he systematized collections and eventually became a director [3] . He published more than 400 articles, many together with Charles and Walter Rothschilds , he (as one author) described 2,575 new species, and described 851 new species in collaboration with the Rothschilds. He was the initiator and organizer of the First International Entomological Congress (1910, and until 1955 was the main organizer) [4] . In addition, he became president of the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature. In both organizations, he later became honorary lifetime president. Together with Charles Rothschild, he discovered a route of transmission of plague from rats to humans through a rat flea. He also developed a nomenclature system for venation of insect wings, known as the Rothschild-Jordan system [5] .
Since 1911, he was a naturalized citizen of Great Britain. Jordan married in 1891 Minna Bruening, with whom he had two daughters, Hildegard (Hildegard (1891) and Ada (Ada 1891) [1] .
He died on January 12, 1959 in Thring ( Chiltern Hills , Hertfordshire , UK) at the age of 97.
Recognition
- Academician of the Royal Society (1932).
- President of the Royal Entomological Society of London in 1929-1930. From 1894 to 1939 he was the first and only editor of Novitates Zoologicae magazine. He was also a member of the Vienna Entomological Society since 1931 and a corresponding member of the Association for Scientific Research in Hamburg [6] .
- Honorary President of the International Entomological Congress
- President of the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature
- In 1973, the Lepidopterist Society established the Karl Jordan Medal for lepidopterology ( German: Karl-Jordan-Medaille ), one of the most prestigious in the field of entomology [7] .
- Ernst Mayer (1955) called Karl Jordan one of the greatest thinkers of our time (“one of the great thinkers of our time”), who introduced many new concepts into systematics and evolutionary biology [4] .
- Many new species of insects are named after Karl Jordan:
- Adscita jordani
- Cordylus jordani [8]
- Corypsylla jordani [9]
- Epitedia jordani [10]
- Eudocima jordani [11]
- Leptopelis jordani [8]
- Nearctopsylla jordani [9]
- Jordaniana Hering, 1955 [12]
- Opisthodontia jordani [13]
- Pirgula jordani [14]
- Proutiella jordani [15]
Butterfly - Corydalis de: Proutiella jordani
Butterfly Eudocima jordani
Speckled butterfly de: Jordanita
Notes
- ↑ 1 2 ND Riley : Heinrich Ernst Karl Jordan. 1861-1959. In: Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society. Vol. 6 (Nov., 1960), pp. 106-133.
- ↑ Ernst Elsheimer (Hrsg.): Verzeichnis der Alten Burschenschafter nach dem Stande vom Wintersemester 1927/28. Frankfurt am Main 1928, S. 233.
- ↑ Verzeichnis der Mitglieder des österreichischen Entomologen-Vereines. pdf
- ↑ 1 2 Max Whitten: History on International Congresses of Entomology. (August 2010)
- ↑ Lee D. Miller: Nomenclature of Wing Veins and Cells. In: Journal of Research on the Lepidoptera. 8 (2): 37-48, 1969 (1970), S. 40–43. pdf Archived March 24, 2015 on Wayback Machine
- ↑ Verhandlungen des Verein für naturwissenschaftliche Heimatforschung zu Hamburg. Hamburg 1958, S. ii und vii f.
- ↑ Archived copy (inaccessible link) . Date of treatment February 9, 2012. Archived on May 7, 2012. und Jacqueline Y. Miller: Nominations for the Karl Jordan Medal. In: News of the Lepidopterists' Society. Autumn 2007, Vol. 49 Nr. 3 S. 77. pdf Archived March 6, 2016 on the Wayback Machine
- ↑ 1 2 Hampton Wildman Parker: Dr. Karl Jordans expedition to South-West Africa and Angola: Herpetological collections. In: Novitates Zoologicae. Vol. 40, Tring 1936, S. 115–146.
- ↑ 1 2 Pacific University Bulletin. Vol 37, March 1940, No. one.
- ↑ Pacific University Bulletin. Vol 37, April 1940, No. 2.
- ↑ Auch bekannt als: Ophideres jordani und Jordan's Fruit Piercing Moth . Benannt von William Jacob Holland . Nachweis: Archived copy (inaccessible link) . Date of treatment April 4, 2013. Archived April 4, 2013.
- ↑ AfroMoths
- ↑ http://www.afromoths.net/species/show/48794 (inaccessible link)
- ↑ AfroMoths
- ↑ Proutiella jordani - Wikispecies
Literature
- Riley ND (1960). Heinrich Ernst Karl Jordan. 1861-1959. In: Biographical memoirs of fellows of the Royal Society. Band 6, 1960 S. 106-133.
- Riley ND (1955). Karl Jordan and the International Congresses of Entomology. Trans. R. ent. Soc. Lond. Vol 107: pp 15-24