Carl Chun
Carl Chun (
October 1,
1852 â€"
April 11,
1914) was a
German marine
biologist.
Chun was born in Höchst, today a part of
Frankfurt, and studied
zoology at the
University of Leipzig where, after posts in
Königsberg and
Breslau, he was appointed professor for biology in
1892. He initiated and led the German deep sea expedition, which set out on
August 1,
1898 from
Hamburg to explore the deep sea in the sub
antarctic seas. They visited
Bouvetøya, the
Kerguelen Islands, and other islands in the area, before returning to Hamburg, where they arrived on
April 30,
1899.
Chun was a specialist on
cephalopods and
plankton. He discovered and named the
Vampire Squid (
Vampyroteuthis infernalis, lit. "vampire squid from hell").
He died on
April 11 1914 in
Leipzig.
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books by Carl Chun
