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Paul Bartsch (14 August 1871 Tuntschendorf, Silesia - 24 April 1960 McLean, Virginia) was an American malacologist and carcinologist.〔http://www.conchsoc.org/eminent/Bartsch-P.php〕 He was named the last of those belonging to the "Descriptive Age of Malacology.〔Boss, Kenneth J., Joseph Rosewater, and Florence A. Ruhoff, 1968. ''The Zoological Taxa of William Healey Dall''. United States National Museum Bulletin 287, 427 pages, 2 November〕 ==Early life== Paul Bartsch emigrated with his parents to the U.S.A in 1880, first to Missouri and then to Burlington, Iowa. As a child, he took up jobs in his spare time in several employments. He soon took an interest in nature, first by keeping a small menagerie at home, and during his high school years, collecting birds and preparing skins. He established a natural-history club in his home with a little museum and a workshop. By the time he went to the University of Iowa in 1893, he had collected 2,000 skins. Among his professors at the university were the University of Iowa were the geologist Samuel Calvin, botanists Thomas H. Macbride and Bohumil Shimek, and the zoologist Charles C. Nutting. He graduated from the university with a B.S. in 1896, and M.S. in 1899, and PhD in 1905.〔http://www.inhs.uiuc.edu/~ksc/Malacologists/BartschP.html〕 In 1896 he was invited by William H. Dall to the Smithsonian Institution in Washington to serve as his assistant in the Division of Mollusks. At that time, Bartsch knew little about mollusks and expected more to make ornithology his life work. In 1899 he became an instructor in zoology at the Columbian University (later George Washington University), but declined the next year a full-time professorship as he was more devoted to scientific research. Nevertheless, he was later given the title of professor, as he continued to teach in the evening and in the weekends. He was joined a few years later by W.H. Dall in directing graduate students. Bartsch continued teaching zoology until he retired in 1945 with the rank of professor emeritus. In 1901 Bartsch became lecturer on histology at the Medical School of Howard University. His workload became heavier as the next year he was promoted to professor on Histology and became director of the histology laboratory. The next year he became Director of the Physiology Laboratory and Lecturer in Medical Zoology. he continued in this capacity for 37 years. In 1956 he retired from the Smithsonian Institution after more than fifty years of service. He retreated into his estate on the Potomac shore at Mason's Neck, below Fort Belvoir, Virginia. He spent his time in turning this estate into a wildlife sanctuary. In 1902, he started systematic scientific bird banding, the first to do so in modern times.〔http://www.pwrc.usgs.gov/BBL/homepage/100years.htm#bartsch〕 In 1914 he became curator at the National Museum of Natural History of the combined divisions of Mollusks and Marine Invertebrates. He continued in this function until 1945. As his workload became too heavy, the two divisions were separated again in 1920.〔Florence A. Ruhoff (1973), ''Bibliography and Zoological Taxa of Paul Bartsch'', Biographical Sketch by Harald A. Rehder, Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology, Number 143〕 Paul Bartsch invented, in 1922, an underwater camera. His papers are held at George Washington University.〔(Guide to the Paul Bartsch Papers, 1894-1945 ) Special Collections Research Center, Estelle and Melvin Gelman Library, The George Washington University.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Paul Bartsch」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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