Christoph Gottfried Andreas Giebel
Christoph Gottfried Andreas Giebel (13 September 1820 – 14 November 1881) was a German zoologist and palaeontologist.
Biography
Giebel was born on 13 September 1820 in Quedlinburg, Prussian Saxony, and educated at the University of Halle, where he graduated in 1845 with a Ph.D.. At Halle his instructors were Ernst Friedrich Germar and Hermann Burmeister.[1] In 1858 he became professor of zoology and director of the museum there. He died on 14 November 1881 at Halle.[2]
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).[2] His 5-volume Naturgeschichte des Tierreichs (1859–1864) is considered to be a forerunner to Brehms Tierleben.[3] With Wilhelm Heinrich Heintz, he was editor of the Zeitschrift für Naturwissenschaften.[4]
He is the taxonomic author of the extinct fish genera Asima (1848),[5] Elonichthys (1848),[6] and Tharsis (1847).[7][8]
References
- ↑ Giebel, Christoph Gottfried Andreas Deutsche Biographie
- 1 2 Chisholm 1911.
- ↑ Christian Gottfried Giebel Catalogus Professorum Halensis
- ↑ Zeitschrift für Naturwissenschaften Internet Archive
- ↑ Asima Giebel, 1848 GBIF
- ↑ Elonichthys Giebel, 1848 GBIF
- ↑ Taxon: Genus †Tharsis Taxonomicon
- ↑ The Genera of Fishes ...: From Linnæus to Cuvier, 1758-1833 By David Starr Jordan, Barton Warren Evermann
- Attribution
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Giebel, Christoph Gottfried Andreas". Encyclopædia Britannica. 12 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press.
External links
- Works by or about Christoph Gottfried Andreas Giebel at Internet Archive
- Meyers Großes Konversations-Lexikon (1905) (in German)