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Carl Friedrich Roewer (12 October 1881, in Neustrelitz – 17 June 1963) was a German arachnologist. He concentrated on harvestmen, where he described almost a third (2,260) of today's known species, but also almost 700 taxa of spiders and numerous Solifugae.
He joined the Nazi Party in the 1930s. From 1933 on, he was the second director of the Ãœbersee-Museum in
Arachnology
Some of his specimens are also in the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin.
Carl Friedrich Roewer (12 October 1881, in Neustrelitz – 17 June 1963) was a German arachnologist. He concentrated on harvestmen, where he described almost a third (2,260) of today's known species, but also almost 700 taxa of spiders and numerous Solifugae.
He joined the Nazi Party in the 1930s. From 1933 on, he was the second director of the Ãœbersee-Museum in Bremen
Bremen (Low German also: ''Breem'' or ''Bräm''), officially the City Municipality of Bremen (german: Stadtgemeinde Bremen, ), is the capital of the German state Free Hanseatic City of Bremen (''Freie Hansestadt Bremen''), a two-city-state consis ...
, Germany. Under his direction the museum intensified its advocacy of scientific racism.
The Senckenberg
The Naturmuseum Senckenberg is a museum of natural history, located in Frankfurt am Main. It is the second-largest of its type in Germany. The museum contains a large and diverse collection of birds with 90,000 bird skins, 5,050 egg sets, 17,0 ...
ische Naturforschende Gesellschaft bought his extensive collection (including type material
In biology, a type is a particular specimen (or in some cases a group of specimens) of an organism to which the scientific name of that organism is formally attached. In other words, a type is an example that serves to anchor or centralizes the ...
from other arachnologists such as L. Koch, Eugène Simon
Eug̬ne Louis Simon (; 30 April 1848 Р17 November 1924) was a French naturalist who worked particularly on insects and spiders, but also on birds and plants. He is by far the most prolific spider taxonomist in history, describing over 4, ...
, Thorell, Philipp Bertkau and Friedrich Dahl
Karl Friedrich Theodor Dahl (June 24, 1856 in Rosenhofer Brök north of Dahme, Holstein – June 29, 1929 in Greifswald) was a German zoologist, and in particular an arachnologist.
The son of a farmer, Dahl studied at the universities of Leipzi ...
) and his private library.Senckenberg forschungsinstitut und naturmuseumArachnology
Some of his specimens are also in the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin.
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* 1881 births 1963 deaths People from Neustrelitz German arachnologists People from Mecklenburg-Strelitz 20th-century German zoologists {{germany-zoologist-stub Nazi Party members