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Johann Philipp Achilles Leisler (1 August 1771 or 1772 – 8 December 1813) was a German physician and naturalist.
Leisler named a number of birds, including the
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Johann Philipp Achilles Leisler (1 August 1771 or 1772 – 8 December 1813) was a German physician and naturalist.
Leisler named a number of birds, including the Temminck's stint
Temminck's stint (''Calidris temminckii'') is a small wader. This bird's common name and Latin binomial commemorate the Dutch naturalist Coenraad Jacob Temminck. The genus name is from Ancient Greek ''kalidris'' or ''skalidris'', a term used by ...
, which he named after his friend Coenraad Jacob Temminck
Coenraad Jacob Temminck (; 31 March 1778 – 30 January 1858) was a Dutch people, Dutch Aristocracy (class), aristocrat, Zoology, zoologist and museum director.
Biography
Coenraad Jacob Temminck was born on 31 March 1778 in Amsterdam in the Dut ...
(1778–1858). He is commemorated in Leisler's bat
The lesser noctule, Leisler's bat or the Irish bat (''Nyctalus leisleri''), is a species of insectivorous bat belonging to the vesper bat family, Vespertilionidae. The species was named to honour the naturalist Johann Philipp Achilles Leisler
...
, ''Nyctalus leisleri'', first described by Heinrich Kuhl
Heinrich Kuhl (17 September 1797 – 14 September 1821) was a German people, German naturalist and zoologist.
Kuhl was born in Hanau (Hesse, Germany). Between 1817 and 1820, he was the assistant of professor Th. van Swinderen, docent natural hi ...
(1797–1821).
He was a founding member of the ''Wetterauischen Gesellschaft für die gesamte Naturkunde'' (Wetterauische Society for Natural History) at Hanau
Hanau () is a town in the Main-Kinzig-Kreis, in Hesse, Germany. It is located 25 km east of Frankfurt, Frankfurt am Main and is part of the Frankfurt Rhine-Main, Frankfurt Rhine-Main Metropolitan Region. Its Hanau Hauptbahnhof, station is a ...
.
His daughter, Luise von Ploennies
Luise von Ploennies (7 November 1803 – 22 January 1872) was a German poet. Life
She was born at Hanau, the daughter of the naturalist Johann Philipp Achilles Leisler. In 1824 she married the physician August von Ploennies in Darmstadt. Aft ...
(1803–1872), was known for her poetry and dramas.
Publications
* ''Populäres Naturrecht: Reines Naturrecht'', 1799 - Popular natural law: Pure natural law. * ''Nachträge zu Bechsteins Naturgeschichte Deutschlands'', 1812 - Addenda to Bechstein's natural history of Germany.(publications)
References
1771 births 1813 deaths 18th-century German zoologists German ornithologists 19th-century German zoologists {{Germany-zoologist-stub