Peter Friedrich Ludwig Tischbein (6 December 1813,
Eutin
Eutin () is the district capital of Ostholstein, Eastern Holstein county located in the northern German state of Schleswig-Holstein. As of 2020, the town had some 17,000 inhabitants.
History
The name Eutin (originally Utin) is of Slavic origin. I ...
– 5 October 1883, Eutin) was a German
forester
A forester is a person who practises forestry, the science, art, and profession of managing forests. Foresters engage in a broad range of activities including ecological restoration and management of protected areas. Foresters manage forests to ...
,
paleontologist
Paleontology (), also spelled palaeontology or palæontology, is the scientific study of life that existed prior to, and sometimes including, the start of the Holocene epoch (roughly 11,700 years before present). It includes the study of fossi ...
and
entomologist
Entomology () is the scientific study of insects, a branch of zoology. In the past the term "insect" was less specific, and historically the definition of entomology would also include the study of animals in other arthropod groups, such as arach ...
. His father was the painter
Johann Heinrich Wilhelm Tischbein
Johann Heinrich Wilhelm Tischbein, known as the ''Goethe Tischbein'' (15 February 1751 in Haina – 26 February 1829 in Eutin), was a German painter from the Tischbein family of artists.
Biography
Johann Heinrich Wilhelm Tischbein was born on 15 ...
.
Prior to 1841, he worked as a supervisor in the
Lensahn
Lensahn is a municipality in the district of Ostholstein, in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. It is situated approximately 9 km south of Oldenburg in Holstein, and 40 km northeast of Lübeck.
Lensahn is the seat of the ''Amt (subnational en ...
forestry district of
Holstein
Holstein (; nds, label=Northern Low Saxon, Holsteen; da, Holsten; Latin and historical en, Holsatia, italic=yes) is the region between the rivers Elbe and Eider. It is the southern half of Schleswig-Holstein, the northernmost state of German ...
. In 1843 he was named head of the
Oberstein
Idar-Oberstein () is a town in the Birkenfeld district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. As a ''Große kreisangehörige Stadt'' (large city belonging to a district), it assumes some of the responsibilities that for smaller municipalities in ...
forestry department headquartered in
Herrstein
Herrstein is an ''Ortsgemeinde'' – a municipality belonging to a ''Verbandsgemeinde'', a kind of collective municipality – in the Birkenfeld district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It is the seat of the ''Verbandsgemeinde'' Herrstein-Rha ...
. In 1852 he attained the title of ''Oberförster'', and in 1873 became a senior official of forested areas in the
Principality of Birkenfeld
The Principality of Birkenfeld (german: Fürstentum Birkenfeld), known after 1919 as the Region of Birkenfeld (german: Landesteil Birkenfeld), was an exclave of the Grand Duchy and then the Free State of Oldenburg from 1817 until 1937, when it w ...
. Two years later, he was named chief forester for the
Principality of Lübeck
A principality (or sometimes princedom) can either be a monarchy, monarchical feudatory or a sovereign state, ruled or reigned over by a regnant-monarch with the title of prince and/or princess, or by a monarch with another title considered to ...
.
[Hessische Biografie]
(biographical sketch)
As a paleontologist, he collected fossils found in the
Hunsrück slate
The Hunsrück () is a long, triangular, pronounced upland in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It is bounded by the valleys of the Moselle-Saar (north-to-west), the Nahe (south), and the Rhine (east). It is continued by the Taunus mountains, past ...
of western Germany, including the
brittle star
Brittle stars, serpent stars, or ophiuroids (; ; referring to the serpent-like arms of the brittle star) are echinoderms in the class Ophiuroidea, closely related to starfish. They crawl across the sea floor using their flexible arms for locomo ...
species ''Euzonosoma tischbeinianum'' of the extinct family
Encrinasteridae.
[ In the field of entomology, he described four new species of ]sawfly
Sawflies are the insects of the suborder Symphyta within the order Hymenoptera, alongside ants, bees, and wasps. The common name comes from the saw-like appearance of the ovipositor, which the females use to cut into the plants where they lay ...
— ''Tenthredo hungarica'', ''Cephus pulcher'', ''Macrophya ratzeburgii'' and ''Tenthredo albopunctata''.Natura Somogyiensis 11
Sawflies of the Carpathian Basin, History and Current Research Ladislav Roller and Attila Haris
References
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1813 births
1883 deaths
People from Eutin
German foresters
German paleontologists
German entomologists