Carl Jonas Pfeiffer
Carl Jonas Pfeiffer | |
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Born | Landgraviate of Hesse-Cassel, Holy Roman Empire | 7 February 1779
Died | 5 March 1836 Cassel, Electorate of Hesse | (aged 57)
Alma mater | University of Marburg (partial) |
Spouses | Maria Louisa Theodora Merrem
(m. 1808; died 1827) Dorothea Margarita Karoline Magdalene Friederike Wilhelmine Günste
(m. 1831) |
Relatives |
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Scientific career | |
Author abbrev. (zoology) | C. Pfeiffer |
Carl Jonas Pfeiffer (7 February 1779 - 3 May 1836) was a German
Early life and business ventures
Pfeiffer, called Jonas as a child, was born in the Oberneustadt
By 1803, Carl Pfeiffer and his brother Georg were living in
Scientific career
While living in Hanau, Carl Pfeiffer cultivated a friendship with the naturalist
Organisms described
- Lithoglyphus naticoides
- Pisidium
- Stagnicola fuscus
- Clausilia obtusa
- Theodoxus prevostianus
- Macrogastra badia
- Urticicola umbrosus
- Vidovicia caerulans
- Clausilia minima
- Valvata (Atropidina) depressa
- Cochlodina costata
- Kosicia intermedia syn for Chilostoma intermedium
- Unio elongatulus
- Caucasotachea vindobonensis
- Carychium menkeanum
- Theodoxus danubialis
- Theodoxus transversalis
- Clausilia gracilis
- Fusulus interruptus
- Edentiella leucozona
- Edentiella lurida
- Clausilia pumila
- Holandriana holandrii
- Pseudofusulus varians
Family and later life
Carl Jonas Pfeiffer was married twice. He married his first wife, Louise Marie Theodore (née Merrem, 13 October 1787 - 31 Aug 1827) on August 7, 1808, in Marburg. She was the eldest daughter of the naturalist and University of Marburg professor Blasius Merrem (4 February 1761 – 23 February 1824) and his wife Juliane Johanne Marie (née von Cotzhausen, 1759-1808).[5] This union produced three children:
- Georg Ludwig (18 July 1809 - 1892)
- Marie Sophie Christiane (14 December 1810 - 22 March 1850)
- Carl Wilhelm Theodor (19 May 1816 - after 1886)
Louise Pfeiffer had spent much of her late life in delicate health, and Carl had purchased her a garden plot on the Akazienallee in Cassel, where he built her a small summer home. Despite his best efforts, she died on August 31, 1827, at the age of 39.[1] In 1831, Carl remarried, this time to his erstwhile childhood sweetheart, Friederike (née Günste, 1 December 1784 - 13 July 1871). Their happiness was short-lived, however, as Carl suffered a debilitating stroke in that same year, and never recovered. Carl Jonas Pfeiffer died on May 30, 1836, just weeks after his daughter's wedding. By this time, his elder son had taken over his banking interests, and his younger son had followed his grandfather's footsteps and was living in Switzerland as a preacher. At his death, Carl Pfeiffer's extensive collection of malacological and conchological specimens was given partly to his friend, Dr. Karl Theodor Menke, and partly to his nephew, Dr. Louis Pfeiffer.[6]
Bibliography
- Systematische Anordnung und Beschreibung deutscher Land- und Süßwasserschnecken, mit besonderer Rücksicht aus die bisher in Hessen gefundenen Arten. Cassel: Schüppelschen Buchhandlung. 1821.
- Naturgeschichte deutscher Land- und Süßwasser-Mollusken. Vol. 1. Weimar: Verlage des Grosherzogl. Sächs. Privil. Landes-Industrie-Comptoirs. 1825. (re-issue of the above)
- Naturgeschichte deutscher Land- und Süßwasser-Mollusken. Vol. 2. Weimar: Verlage des Grosherzogl. Sächs. Privil. Landes-Industrie-Comptoirs. 1825.
- Naturgeschichte deutscher Land- und Süßwasser-Mollusken. Vol. 3. Weimar: Verlage des Grosherzogl. Sächs. Privil. Landes-Industrie-Comptoirs. 1828.[7]
Further reading
- Pfeiffer, Carl Jonas in: Hessische Biografie (Stand: 7.2.2022)
References
- ^ a b c d e f Pfeiffer, August Ludwig (1886). Die Familie Pfeiffer: Eine Sammlung von Lebensbildern und Stammbäumen. Kassel: Druck von Friedr. Scheel.
- ^ a b Justi, Karl Wilhelm; Pfeiffer, Karl Jonas (1831). "Pfeiffer (Karl Jonas)". Grundlage Zu Einer Hessichen Gelehrten-Schriftsteller Und Künstler-Geschichte vom Jahre 1806 bis zum Jahre 1830. Marburg: Garthe. pp. 486–488.
- ^ a b Piderit, Franz Carl Theodor. Geschichte der Haupt- und Residenzstadt Cassel, Klaunig, Cassel 1882
- ^ Dance, S. Peter. A History of Shell Collecting. E. J. Brill-W. Backhuys, Leiden 1986.
- ^ Bohle, H. W. Von Der Naturgeschichte Zur Zoologie: Blasius Merrem Und Die Entwicklung Der Zoologie an Der Universität Marburg Im 19. Jahrhundert (1807-1928). Waxmann, 2015.
- ^ Hodvina, Sylvain. Carl Georg Ludwig (Louis) Pfeiffer, 30 Oct. 2020.
- ^ Coan, E. V. & Alan R. Kabat, 2,400 Years of Malacology. 15th ed., February 11, 2018, 1,594 pp. + 109 pp. [Annex 1 – Book Collations] + 65 pp. [Annex 2 – Küster Collation], 51 pp. [Annex 3 – Journal Collations].