Wilhelm Deppe

Wilhelm Deppe born Pierre Guillaume Deppe (8 March 1800 – 15 December 1844) was an accountant at the Museum of Natural History in Berlin. His brother Ferdinand Deppe (1795–1861) collected specimens extensively in central and South America and his unpublished notes were published by Wilhelm, making him technically, the zoological name authority for several species and subspecies.

Deppe born in Berlin and baptized as Pierre Guillaume at the French Church of Berlin. His father was a trader Ferdinand Erneste Pierre Deppe and his mother was Magdelaine Fréderique née Houfselle. Ferdinand collected specimens for the Berlin museum initially but from 1829 they no longer purchased from him. In order to help his brother, Wilhelm published a catalogue of the specimens (obtained by Wilhelm Deppe and Wilhelm Schiede) along with binomial names and prices in 1830 which are considered as valid publications under the ICZN. Taxa that were described in it include:[1][2][3]

The list was republished in the Journal für Ornithologie, however noting it as Hinrich Lichtenstein's price list of Mexican birds in 1863 causing a lot of taxonomic confusion due to the binomial authorities now being stated as Lichtenstein.[4][5]

References

  1. ^ Stresemann, Erwin (1954). "Ferdinand Deppe's Travels in Mexico, 1824-1829". The Condor. 56 (2): 86–92. doi:10.2307/1364664. ISSN 0010-5422. JSTOR 1364664.
  2. ^ Smith, Hobart M. (1971). "The Status of Wilhelm Deppe's Herpetological Names". Journal of Herpetology. 5 (1/2): 74–76. doi:10.2307/1562856. ISSN 0022-1511. JSTOR 1562856.
  3. ^ Bankmann, Ulf (2002). "A Prussian in Mexican California: Ferdinand Deppe, Horticulturist, Collector for European Museums, Trader and Artist". Southern California Quarterly. 84 (1): 1–32. doi:10.2307/41172109. ISSN 0038-3929. JSTOR 41172109.
  4. ^ MacKinney, Anne; Glaubrecht, Matthias (2017-11-02). "Academic practice par excellence: Martin Hinrich Lichtenstein's role in Adelbert von Chamisso's career as naturalist". Internationales Archiv für Sozialgeschichte der deutschen Literatur. 2017 (2). doi:10.1515/iasl-2017-0016. ISSN 1865-9128. S2CID 165599388.
  5. ^ Deppe, W. (1863). "Lichtenstein's Preis-Verzeichniss mexicanischer Vogel etc. vom Jahre 1830". Journal für Ornithologie. 11 (61–66): 54–60. doi:10.1007/BF02005194. S2CID 10259870.