Karl Hermann Konrad Burmeister (January 15, 1807 - May 2, 1892) was a Germanzoologist and entomologist. Image File history File links Burmeister_Harmann_1807-1892. ... Image File history File links Burmeister_Harmann_1807-1892. ... January 15 is the 15th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1807 was a common year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar). ... May 2 is the 122nd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (123rd in leap years). ... 1892 (MDCCCXCII) was a leap year starting on Friday (see link for calendar). ... Zoology (Greek zoon = animal and logos = word) is the biological discipline which involves the study of animals. ... Entomology is the scientific study of insects. ...
Burmeister was professor of Zoology at the Martin Luther University from 1837 to 1861. He travelled to Brazil from 1850 to 1852 and Argentina from 1857 to 1860, returning to Germany with zoological collections. In 1861 he went to live in Argentina, founding the Institute at the Museo Nacional in Buenos Aires. The Martin-Luther-University of Halle-Wittenberg is located in the German cities of Halle, Saxony-Anhalt and Wittenberg. ... For other uses see Buenos Aires (disambiguation). ...
Works
1829 De insectorum systemate naturali. 40 pp. Grunert, Halle. [1829.??.??]
1832 Handbuch der Entomologie. Vol. 1, xvi+ 696 + [2] pp. Reimer, Berlin. [after 1832.10.31]
[1835] Bericht über die Fortschritte der Entomologie 1834-35. Arch. Naturgesch. 1(2): 7-74.
1837 Handbuch der Naturgeschichte. [Part 2] xii + pp. 369-858. Enslin, Berlin. [1837.??.??]
Burmeister, a former professor at the Royal Prussian University of Halle, had taken office as director of the Museo Público in 1862 at the invitation of Sarmiento, then Mitre´s minister of government, and remained in charge of the museum until shortly before his death in 1892.
Burmeister was quick to applaud the decree on the protection of national patrimony in Latin America issued by the Mitre government shortly before and passed in 1869, prohibiting the exportation of fossils, a measure from which the museum was the first to benefit.
Burmeister´s advanced age and poor health might provide a clue, as well as his unwillingness to let some of the younger Argentine naturalists (most of whom were his former disciples) assume positions of any responsibility at the museum which he continued to regard as his personal domain.
Seine Lehrkräfte, darunter der Rektor Johann Ernst Nizze, unterstützten ihn in seinem Bestreben, Medizin zu studieren und seiner Neigung zum Sammeln von Insekten nachzugehen.
In Burmeisters Zeit in Berlin fallen einige bedeutende Erscheinungen wie der „Grundriss der Natrugeschichte“ (1833) und das „Handbuch der Naturgeschichte“ (1837).
Oktober 1856 schiffte sich Burmeister in Southampton ein.
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