Carl Friedrich Roewer, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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German arachnologist
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Place of Birth: Neustrelitz, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany
About Carl Friedrich Roewer
- Carl Friedrich Roewer (12 October 1881, Neustrelitz – 17 June 1963) was a German arachnologist.
- He concentrated on harvestmen, where he described almost a third (2,260) of today's known species, but also almost 700 taxa of spiders and numerous Solifugae. From 1933 on, he was the second director of the Ãœbersee-Museum in Bremen, Germany.The Senckenbergische Naturforschende Gesellschaft bought his extensive collection (including type material from other arachnologists such as L.
- Koch, Eugène Simon, Thorell, Philipp Bertkau and Friedrich Dahl) and his private library.
- Some of his specimens are also in the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin.
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