Heinz Christian Pander

Heinz Christian Pander

Heinz Christian Pander
Born (1794-07-24)24 July 1794
Riga
Died 22 September 1865(1865-09-22) (aged 71)
Saint Petersburg
Citizenship Russian
Nationality Baltic German
Fields Biology
Embryology
Author abbrev. (botany) Pander

Heinz Christian Pander, also Christian Heinrich Pander (24 July 1794 – 22 September 1865), was a Baltic German biologist and embryologist born in Riga.

Biography

In 1817 he received his doctorate from the University of Würzburg, and spent several years (1827–1842), performing scientific research from his estate in Carnikava (German: Zarnikau)[1] on the banks of the Gauja River near Riga. In 1820 he took part in a scientific expedition to Bokhara as a naturalist. In 1826 he became a member of the St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences.

Research

Pander studied the chick embryo and discovered the germ layers (i.e., three distinct regions of the embryo that give rise to the specific organ system). Because of these findings, he is considered by many to be the "founder of embryology". His work in embryology was continued by Karl Ernst von Baer (1792-1876), who expanded Pander's concept of germ layers to include all vertebrates.

Pander performed important studies in the field of paleontology, being known for his extensive research on fossils found in the Devonian and Silurian geological strata of the Baltic regions.[2][3] His study of trilobites from this age led to the adjective 'Panderian', first used by the Canadian palaeontologist, Elkanah Billings.[4] Pander is credited as the first scientist to describe primitive creatures known as conodonts.[5][6]

Today the Pander Society is an international association of palaeontologists and stratigraphers with a common interest in the study of conodonts.[7]

He died in Saint Petersburg.

Eponyms

Pander's eponyms are:

Selected writings

See also

References

  1. Godwin-Austen, H. (1866). "On the Carboniferous Rocks of the Valley of Kashmere: with Notes on the Brachiopoda collected by Capt. Godwin-Austen in Thibet and Kashmere, by T. Davidson, Esq., F.R.S., F.G.S". Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society. 22: i–639 [37]. doi:10.1144/GSL.JGS.1866.022.01-02.08.
  2. Google Books Hardwicke's Science-gossip by John Ellor Taylor
  3. JSTOR The Status of Cephalaspis Schrenckii
  4. Woodward, Henry (1870). "Geological magazine".
  5. Devonian Life and Evolution H.C. Pander and strange Conodonts
  6. GEOS394 Conodont Lecture
  7. The Pander Society
  8. OCLC Classify (publications)
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