Max Carl Wilhelm Weber, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Max Carl Wilhelm Weber

German-Dutch zoologist (1852-1937)

Date of Birth: 05-Dec-1852

Place of Birth: Bonn, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

Date of Death: 07-Feb-1937

Profession: zoologist, university teacher, ichthyologist

Nationality: Netherlands, Germany, Kingdom of the Netherlands, German Empire

Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius


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About Max Carl Wilhelm Weber

  • Not to be confused with Max Weber. 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.

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