Max Carl Wilhelm Weber

Max Carl Wilhelm Weber
Born	December 5, 1852(1852-12-05)
Died	February 7, 1937(1937-02-07) (aged 84)
Institutions	University of Utrecht, University of Amsterdam, University of Bonn, Humboldt University
Notable awards	Foreign Member of the Royal Society[1]

Map showing Weber's line in relation to those of Wallace and Lydekker, as well as the probable extent of land at the time of the last glacial maximum, when the sea level was more than 110 m lower than today.

Max Carl Wilhelm Weber or Max Wilhelm Carl Weber (5 December 1852, Bonn – 7 February 1937 Eerbeek) was a German-Dutch zoologist and biogeographer.

Weber studied at the University of Bonn, then at the Humboldt University in Berlin with the zoologist Eduard Carl von Martens (1831-1904). He obtained his doctorate in 1877. Weber taught at the University of Utrecht then participated in an expedition to the Barents Sea. After this he became Professor of Zoology, Anatomy and Physiology at the University of Amsterdam (in 1883). In the same year he was naturalised Dutch.

He drew Weber's Line which encloses the region in which the mammalian fauna is exclusively Australasian. Weber's Line is an alternative to Wallace Line. As is the case with plant species, faunal surveys revealed that for vertebrate groups, except for birds, Wallace’s Line was not the most significant biogeographic boundary. The Tanimbar Island group, and not the boundary between Bali and Lombok, appears to be the major interface between the Oriental and Australasian regions for mammals, and other terrestrial vertebrate groups. Thus, for many invertebrates, and birds and butterflies, this interface is better represented by Weber’s Line than Wallace’s Line. ^[2]

With G.A.F. Molengraaff Weber gave names to the Sahul Shelf and the Sunda Shelf in 1919.^[3]

Max Carl Wilhelm Weber was the leader of Siboga Expedition.

Publications

• Weber, M. [W. C.] (ed.), 1890-1907. Zoologische Ergebnisse einer Reise in Niederländisch Ost-Indien, 1 (1890-1891): [i-v], i-xi, maps I-III, 1-460, pls. I-XXV; 2 (1892): [i-v], 1-571, pls. I-XXX; 3 (1894): [i-v], 1-476, pls. I-XXII; 4 (1897-1907): [i-v], 1-453, pls. I-XVI (E. J. Brill, Leiden).
• Weber, M. [W. C.], 1902. Introduction et description de l'expedition", I. Siboga-expeditie.
• Weber, M. [W. C.], 1904b. Enkele resultaten der Siboga-expeditie. Versl. gewone Vergad. wis- en natuurk. Afd. K. Akad. Wet. Amsterdam, 12 (2): 910-914.
• Weber, M. [W. C.] & L. F. de Beaufort, 1911-1962. The fishes of the Indo-Australian Archipelago, I (1911). Index of the ichthyological papers of P. Bleeker: i-xi, 1-410, 1 portrait; II. (1913). Malacopterygii, Myctophoidea, Ostariophysi: I Siluroidea: i-xx, 1-404, 1 portrait; III. (1916) Ostariophysi: II Cyprinoidea, Apodes, Synbranchii]: i-xv, 1-455; IV. (1922) Heteromi, Solenichthyes, Synentognathi, Percesoces, Labyrinthici, Microcyprini]: i-xiii, 1-410.

See also

• Lydekker's Line

References

1. ^ Thompson, D. W. (1938). "Max Wilhelm Carl Weber. 1852-1937". Obituary Notices of Fellows of the Royal Society 2 (6): 346–326. doi:10.1098/rsbm.1938.0017.  edit
2. ^ http://www.irgltd.com/Resources/Publications/ANE/2004-02%20Indonesia%20Biodiversity%20and%20Tropical%20Forest.pdf page 3-82
3. ^ Ballard, Chris (1993). "Stimulating minds to fantasy? A critical etymology for Sahul". Sahul in review: pleistocene archaeology in Australia, New Guinea and island Melanesia. Canberra: Australian National University. pp. p. 17. ISBN 0-7315-1540-4. 

External links

• Querner, H., 1976. Weber, Max Wilhelm Carl. In : C. C. Gillispie (ed.), Dictionary of scientific biography, 14 : 203 (Charles Scribner's Sons, New York).
• Pieters, Florence F. J. M. et Jaap de Visser, 1993. The scientific career of the zoologist Max Wilhelm Carl Weber (1852-1937). Bijdragen tot de Dierkunde, 62 (4): 193-214.
• Biography
• works by Max Carl Wilhelm Weber at Internet Archive

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Name	Weber, Max Carl Wilhelm
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Date of birth	5 December 1852
Place of birth	Bonn
Date of death	7 February 1937
Place of death	Eerbeek