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What fascinates you about Johann Jakob Kaup?


















Johann Jakob Kaup in a photograph in 1860

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interview with the Wiesbaden-based science writer Ernst Probst Author of the pocket book "Johann Jakob Kaup. The great naturalist from Darmstadt

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question: Why did you write a biography of the Darmstadt zoologists and paleontologists Johann Jakob Kaup (1803-1873)?

Answer: Johann Jakob Kaup, in my view one of the great in zoology and paleontology, who was in the same breath as the famous scientist Hermann von Meyer in Frankfurt am Main, Georges Cuvier in Paris and Richard Owen in London are mentioned.



* Question: What fascinates you about Johann Jakob Kaup?

Answer: I was most fascinated by Johann Jakob Kaup, that he has succeeded in spite of adverse conditions, a famous scientist to be. He was born out of wedlock, grew up without a father, his mother died early. He studied two semesters. His employer paid him badly. Nevertheless, he surpassed many other scholars.

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question: What remains a reminder of Johann Jakob Kaup?

Answer: At the Darmstadt naturalist remember scientific genus and species names, the Kaupstraße in his hometown of Darmstadt, the Kaup-archive in the Hessisches Landesmuseum Darmstadt, the scientific publication "Kaupia", the "Kaupiana, Association of Friends of the Darmstadt school -Vivarium ", the mountain Mount Kaup in New Zealand. His name is also found in numerous books, scientific journals, the Internet and in museums. A photo of him adorns such as the Dinotherium Museum in Eppelsheim near Alzey in Rheinhessen.



* Question: What impressed you about the scientific output of Kaup special?

A. Kaup has dealt with insects, fish, amphibians, reptiles, birds and mammals, and described many genera and species scientific first. Many of the old in about ten million years deposits of the ancient Rhine Rheinhessen discovered in mammals owe their name is still valid today. For example, the Rhine-Elephant Deinotherium giganteum, the saber-toothed cat Machairodus aphanistus and the strange animal claw Chalicotherium goldfussi. Kaup of the term dates for the pterosaurs pterosaurs. His scientific publications had to travel and the father of five children usually pay out of pocket. Worldwide, he had contact with the best in his field and exchanged with them views and museum objects.



* Question: Have the scientific achievements of Kaup been duly appreciated?

Answer: In print dictionaries, look for the name of Johann Jakob Kaup in vain. But there is also the great Hermann von Meyer (1801-1869) no mention of Frankfurt am Main, who described the primitive bird Archaeopteryx, the German dragon Plateosaurus and many other fossil animals first scientifically. The online encyclopedia "Wikipedia", however, Kaup and Meyer befitting. About Kaup several short biographies have appeared. Here, above all, the authors George Heldmann, Georg Hefele, Hanns Feustel, Jens Lorenz Franzen and Gabriele Gruber to name. The Hessian National Museum Darmstadt is remembered for a long time in an exemplary manner at Kaup. In this regard, it Kaup fared much better than many other big companies in the science.



* Question: What is offered in your pocketbook on Johann Jakob Kaup?

Answer: The Biography "Johann Jakob Kaup. The great naturalist from Darmstadt describes "in 248 pages the life of this famous scientist. The publication is lavishly illustrated. The photos, paintings and drawings, Kaup and contemporaries as well as exotic animals, the first scientifically described Kaup added. The biography is on "GRIN for academic texts" http://www.grin.com as e-books in PDF format and available as a printed Paperback. There is also the paperback in many online book stores and in any good bookstore.

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