Wilhelm Giesbrecht
Wilhelm Giesbrecht was a Prussian zoologist, specialising in copepods, during the "golden age of copepodology".
Giesbrecht was born in Gdańsk in 1854, and was educated in Kiel, where in 1881 he earned a Ph.D. in Baltic copepods under Professor Karl Möbius. He then moved to Naples to work at the zoological station there, staying there for the remainder of his life. His most famous work is the 1892 monograph . In 1904, at the request of Anton Dohrn, Giesbrecht was made an honorary professor. He is commemorated in a number of species names:
- Prostheceraeus giesbrechtii Lang, 1884
- Buntonia giesbrechti
- Onchocorycaeus giesbrechti
- Stenhelia giesbrechti T. & A. Scott, 1896
- Pseudocyclopia giesbrechti Wolfenden, 1902
- Xanthocalanus giesbrechti I. C. Thompson, 1903
- Aetideus giesbrechti
- Arietellus giesbrechti G. O. Sars, 1905
- Conchoecetta giesbrechti
- Paramphiascopsis giesbrechti
- Harpacticus giesbrechti Klie, 1927
- Pseudoclausia giesbrechti Bocquet & Stock, 1960
- Candacia giesbrechti Grice & Lawson, 1977
- Schoenocaulon ghiesbreghtii Greenman, Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts. 43: 20. 1907
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