Carl Eduard Adolph Gerstaecker
Carl Eduard Adolph Gerstaecker was a German zoologist, entomologist and professor at the University of Berlin and afterwards the University of Greifswald.
Biography
Gerstaecker was born in Berlin, where he studied medicine and natural sciences, receiving a PhD in 1855 as a student of Johann Christoph Friedrich Klug. In 1856 he obtained his habilitation for zoology, and soon afterwards, became a curator at the Zoological Museum of Humboldt University. In 1864 he began work as a lecturer at the Landwirtschaftlichen Lehranstalt in Berlin. In 1874, he became an associate professor for zoology at the University of Berlin, and in 1876, a professor of zoology at the University of Greifswald. He died in Greifswald.Works
Monographie der Endomychiden - Monograph on Endomychidae.Handbuch der Zoologie, Leipzig.- Arthropoda, in Klassen und Ordnungen des Thierreichs, 1866–93.Beitrag zur Insekten-Fauna von Zanzibar. Parts -3. - Contribution to the insect-fauna of Zanzibar.Das Skelet des Döglings Hyperoodon Rostratus Ein Beitrag zur Osteologie der Cetaceen und zur vergleichenden Morphologie der Wirbelsäule, - The skeleton of the northern bottlenose whale. A contribution to the osteology of cetaceans and the comparative morphology of the spinal column.
- 'On The Geographical Distribution and Varieties of the Honey-Bee, with Remarks upon the Exotic Honeybees of the Old World, The Annals and Magazine of Natural History, Zoology, Botany, and Geology vol.11, no.3, pp. 270–283.