Weber Line

Max Carl Wilhelm Weber van Bosse or Max Wilhelm Carl Weber (5 December 1852, in Bonn – 7 February 1937, in Eerbeek) was a German-Dutch zoologist and biogeographer.

Weber studied at the University of Bonn, then at the Humboldt University in Berlin with the zoologist Eduard Carl von Martens (1831–1904). He obtained his doctorate in 1877. Weber taught at the University of Utrecht then participated in an expedition to the Barents Sea. He became Professor of Zoology, Anatomy and Physiology at the University of Amsterdam in 1883. In the same year he received naturalised Dutch citizenship.

His discoveries as leader of the Siboga Expedition led him to propose Weber's line, which encloses the region in which the mammalian fauna is exclusively Australasian, as an alternative to Wallace's Line. As is the case with plant species, faunal surveys revealed that for most vertebrate groups Wallace’s line was not the most significant biogeographic boundary. The Tanimbar Island group, and not the boundary between Bali and Lombok, appears to be the major interface between the Oriental and Australasian regions for mammals and other terrestrial vertebrate groups.

With G.A.F. Molengraaff, Weber gave names to the Sahul Shelf and the Sunda Shelf in 1919.

Weber became member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1887.

Weber is commemorated in the scientific names of three species of reptiles: '' Anomochilus weberi'', '' Hydrosaurus weberi'', and '' Pachydactylus weberi''. Two species of mammal are also named after him: '' Prosciurillus weberi'' and '' Myotis weberi''.

Publications

* Weber, M. . C.(ed.), 1890-1907. ''Zoologische Ergebnisse einer Reise in Niederländisch Ost-Indien'', 1 (1890-1891): -v i-xi, maps I-III, 1-460, pls. I-XXV; 2 (1892): -v 1-571, pls. I-XXX; 3 (1894): -v 1-476, pls. I-XXII; 4 (1897-1907): -v 1-453, pls. I-XVI (E. J. Brill, Leiden) .
* Weber, M. . C. 1902. ''Introduction et description de l'expedition", I. Siboga-expeditie .
* Weber, M. . C. 1904b. ''Enkele resultaten der Siboga-expeditie''. Versl. gewone Vergad. wis- en natuurk. Afd. K. Akad. Wet. Amsterdam, 12 (2): 910-914.
* Weber, M. . C.& L. F. de Beaufort, 1911-1962. ''The fishes of the Indo-Australian Archipelago'', I (1911). Index of the ichthyological papers of P. Bleeker: i-xi, 1-410, 1 portrait; II. (1913). Malacopterygii, Myctophoidea, Ostariophysi: I Siluroidea: i-xx, 1-404, 1 portrait; III. (1916) Ostariophysi: II Cyprinoidea, Apodes, Synbranchii]: i-xv, 1-455; IV. (1922) Heteromi, Solenichthyes, Synentognathi, Percesoces, Labyrinthici, Microcyprini]: i-xiii, 1-410

Gallery

File:Portrait of Max Wilhelm Carl Weber.jpg, Portrait of Max Wilhelm Carl
File:Max and Anna Weber around 1890.jpg, Max Wilhelm Carl Weber and Anna Weber-van Bosse around 1890
File:Siboga expedition group portrait in laboratory.jpg, Siboga expedition group portrait in laboratory
File:Leden der expeditie.jpg, Siboga expedition group portrait

Taxon described by him

*See :Taxa named by Max Carl Wilhelm Weber

See also

* Mattheus Marinus Schepman
* Anna Weber-van Bosse

References

External links

* Querner, H., 1976. Weber, Max Wilhelm Carl. In : C. C. Gillispie (ed.), ''Dictionary of scientific biography'', 14 : 203 (Charles Scribner's Sons, New York).
* Pieters, Florence F. J. M. et Jaap de Visser, 1993. The scientific career of the zoologist Max Wilhelm Carl Weber (1852-1937). Bijdragen tot de Dierkunde, 62 (4): 193-214.

Biography

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1852 births
1937 deaths
Biogeographers
20th-century Dutch zoologists
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19th-century German zoologists
Foreign Members of the Royal Society
Members of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences
Scientists from Bonn
University of Amsterdam faculty
University of Bonn alumni