Person

Haacke, Johann Wilhelm (1855 - 1912)

Born
23 August 1855
Clenze, Lower Saxony, Germany
Died
6 December 1912
Lűneberg, Germany
Occupation
Explorer, Museum director and Zoologist

Summary

Wilhelm Haacke was a zoologist who was briefly at the Otago and Canterbury Museums in New Zealand before arriving in Adelaide in 1882. For three years he was employed at the South Australian Institute, only resigning as Director in November 1884 following criticism of his efforts to secure the employment of curatorial and collecting staff. Haacke made a study of South Australian jellyfish, was the first to demonstrate that echidna laid eggs, and is credited with the introduction of the term orthogenesis. Before returning to Germany in 1886, he was Chief Scientist on the New Guinea Exploration Expedition to the Fly River in 1885. Between 1888 and 1893 Haacke was Director of the Zoological Gardens in Frankfurt.

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Chronology

1878
Education - Doctorate in zoology, University of Jena, Germany
1878 - 1881
Career position - Zoologist, Zoological Institute, University of Kiel, Germany
1881
Life event - Migrated to New Zealand
March 1882 - February 1883
Career position - Acting Curator (later Curator), Museum, South Australian Institute
1883 -
Career position - Foundation Member, Field Naturalists' Section, Royal Society of South Australia
February 1883 - November 1884
Career position - Director of the Museum, South Australian Institute
June 1885 - December 1885
Career position - Chief Scientist, New Guinea Exploration Expedition
May 1888 - April 1893
Career position - Director, Zoological Gardens, Frankfurt, Germany

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Archival resources

Mitchell and Dixson Libraries Manuscripts Collection, State Library of New South Wales

  • New Guinea Exploration Expedition - Records, June 1885 - November 1885, ML MSS 1090; Mitchell and Dixson Libraries Manuscripts Collection, State Library of New South Wales. Details

Published resources

Books

  • Stirling, E. C.; Haake, J. W.; and Beazley, Geo, Directions for collecting and preserving specimens of natural history (Adelaide: Government Printer, 1882), 8 pp. Details

Journal Articles

  • Barker, Robyn, 'Nothing changes - early taxonomic difficulties and suggestions for a concerted approach to the documentation of Australian flora, fauna and geology', Australasian Systematic Botany Society newsletter, 180 (2019), 6-11. Details
  • Muller, Gerhard H., 'Johann Wilhelm Haacke (1855-1912) - Biologe, Verebungsforscher und kritiker Weissmanns', Freiburger Universitatsblatter, 87/88 (1985), 167-174. Details
  • Osborne, H. F., 'Dr Haacke's discovery of the eggs of echidna', Science, 5 (100) (1885), 3. Details

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See also

  • Van Steenis-Kruseman, M. J., Malaysian plant collectors and collections: being a cyclopaedia of botanical exploration in Malaysia and a guide to the concerned literature up to the year 1950 (Djakarta: Noordhoff-Kolff NV, 1950), clii, 639 pp. Details
  • Wilson, K.L., 'William Bauerlen - a 'Circumspect and Zealous' Collector', in History of Systematic Botany in Australasia: Proceedings of a Symposium Held at the University of Melbourne, 25-27 May 1988 edited by Short, P.S. (Melbourne: Australian Systematic Botany Society, 1990), pp. 97-104.. Details

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