Carl Eduard Adolph Gerstaecker

Carl Eduard Adolph Gerstaecker (30 August 1828, in Berlin – 20 June 1895, in Greifswald) was a German zoologist and entomologist.

He studied medicine and natural sciences in Berlin, receiving his PhD in 1855 as a student of Johann Christoph Friedrich Klug. In 1856 he obtained his habilitation for zoology, and soon afterwards, became a curator at the Zoological Museum of Humboldt University. In 1864 he began work as a lecturer at the Landwirtschaftlichen Lehranstalt (Agricultural Educational Facility) in Berlin. In 1874 he became an associate professor for zoology at the University of Berlin, and in 1876, a professor of zoology at the University of Greifswald.^[1]

Works

• Monographie der Endomychiden (1858) – Monograph on Endomychidae.
• Handbuch der Zoologie (with Wilhelm Peters und Julius Victor Carus), Leipzig (1863-1875).
• Arthropoda, in Klassen und Ordnungen des Thierreichs, (Section Arthropoda, in classes and orders of the Animals) 1866-93.
• Beitrag zur Insekten-Fauna von Zanzibar. Parts [1]-3. (1866) – Contribution to the insect-fauna of Zanzibar.
• Das Skelet des Döglings Hyperoodon Rostratus (Pont.) Ein Beitrag zur Osteologie der Cetaceen und zur vergleichenden Morphologie der Wirbelsäule, (1887) – The skeleton of the northern bottlenose whale. A contribution to the osteology of cetaceans and the comparative morphology of the spinal column.^[2]

References

1. Gerstaecker, Carl Eduard Adolph In: Neue Deutsche Biographie (NDB). Band 6, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1964, ISBN 3-428-00187-7, S. 323.
2. HathiTrust Digital Library published works

External links

• Adolph Gerstäcker de.Wikisource (bibliography)