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Dec 06, 1813 Eutin, Schleswig Holstein, Germany Died on 05 Oct 1883 (aged 69)
German paleontologist
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About Peter Friedrich Ludwig Tischbein
- Peter Friedrich Ludwig Tischbein (6 December 1813, Eutin – 5 October 1883, Eutin) was a German forester, paleontologist and entomologist.
- His father was the painter Johann Heinrich Wilhelm Tischbein.
- Prior to 1841, he worked as a supervisor in the Lensahn forestry district of Holstein.
- In 1843 he was named head of the Oberstein forestry department headquartered in Herrstein.
- In 1852 he attained the title of Oberförster, and in 1873 became a senior official of forested areas in the Principality of Birkenfeld.
- Two years later, he was named chief forester for the Principality of Lübeck.As a paleontologist, he collected fossils found in the Hunsrück slate of western Germany, including the brittle star species Euzonosoma tischbeinianum of the extinct family Encrinasteridae.
- In the field of entomology, he described four new species of sawfly — Tenthredo hungarica, Cephus pulcher, Macrophya ratzeburgii and Tenthredo albopunctata.
