Emil Adolf Rossmässler (''Emil Adolf Roßmäßler'', ''Emil Adolph Roßmäßler'') (March 3, 1806 in

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– April 8, 1867 in Leipzig) was a German

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. With

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and Karl Johann August Müller, he was co-founder of the journal ''Die Natur'' in 1852 and 1859 the sole editor of the journal ''Aus der Heimath''.

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, "Emil Adolf Roβmäβler", ''Neue Deutsche Biographie'', ed. Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften. Vol. 22, Berlin: Duncker & Humblot, 2005, 95–96. Rossmässler was a pioneer and the leading advocate of popularizing science in nineteenth-century Germany. He also belonged to the early writers on the building and maintaining of freshwater aquariums.

Publications

* 1832: ''Systematische Übersicht des Tierreiches'' * 1835–1839: ''Iconographie der Land- und Süßwassermollusken'' (3 volumes) - (Iconography of land Mollusca and freshwater Mollusca) ** 1835–1837: ''Iconographie der Land- und Süßwasser-Mollusken, mit vorzüglicher Berücksichtigung der europäischen noch nicht abgebildeten Arten''. Volume 1. - pp. Heft 1: I-VI 1-6 1-132, -2 Heft 2: -2 1-26, Heft 3: -3 1-3 ** 1838–1844: ''Iconographie der Land- und Süßwassermollusken, mit vorzüglicher Berücksichtigung der europäischen noch nicht abgebildeten Arten''. Volume 2. - pp. (4+44 pp.), (4+46 pp.), (4+15 pp.), (4+37 pp.), Taf. 31-60. Dresden, Leipzig. (Arnold). ** 1854–1859 - ''Iconographie der Land- und Süsswassermollusken Europa's, mit vorzüglicher Berücksichtigung kritischer und noch nicht abgebildeter Arten''. Volume 3. - pp. I-VIII, 1-39, I-VIII, 1-77, I-VIII, 1-140, Taf. 61-90. Leipzig. * 1847: "Helix ligata Müll. Eine kritische Bemerkung". ''Zeitschrift für Malakozoologie'' 4: 161–164. Cassel. *1850–53: ''Der Mensch im Spiegel der Natur'' * 1853: "Kurzer Bericht über meine malakozoologische Reise durch einen Theil des südöstlichen Spanien". ''Zeitschrift für Malakozoologie'' 10 (11): 161-171. Cassel. *1856: ''Die Geschichte der Erde'' * 1857: "Diagnoses novorum Heliceorum". ''Malakozoologische Blätter'' 4: 38-41. Cassel. * 1858: with Bernhard A. Auerswald,
Botanische Unterhaltungen zum Verständniß der heimathlichen Flora
'. Leipzig, Hermann Mendelssohn. * 1865: ''Volksbildung'' *1908:

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References and external links

* https://web.archive.org/web/20081011092102/http://www.uni-leipzig.de/campus2009/jubilaeen/2006/rossmaessler.html - in German, with portrait

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