Robert J. Lendlmayer von Lendenfeld

Robert J. Lendlmayer von Lendenfeld (1858-1913) was an Austrian zoologist, alpinist, and traveler. He was also a notable spongiologist.

von Lendenfeld was one of a number of influential German-speaking residents — such as Ludwig Becker, Hermann Beckler, William Blandowski, Amalie Dietrich, Wilhelm Haacke, Diedrich Henne, Gerard Krefft, Johann Luehmann, Johann Menge, Carl Mücke (a.k.a. Muecke), Ludwig Preiss, Carl Ludwig Christian Rümker (a.k.a. Ruemker), Moritz Richard Schomburgk, Richard Wolfgang Semon, Karl Theodor Staiger, George Ulrich, Eugene von Guérard, Ferdinand von Mueller, Georg von Neumayer, and Carl Wilhelmi — who brought their "epistemic traditions" to Australia, and not only became "deeply entangled with the Australian colonial project", but also were "intricately involved in imagining, knowing and shaping colonial Australia" (Barrett, et al., 2018, p. 2).^[1]

Works

1886: Über Coelenteraten der Südsee
1888: Descriptive catalogue of the sponges in the Australian Museum, Sydney
1890: Australia Felix
1892: Australische Reise
1894: Die Tetractinelliden der Adria: (Mit einem Anhange über die Lithistiden)
1895: Report on the deep-sea fishes collected by H. M. S. Challenger during the years 1873-76
1896: Aus den Alpen
1896: Die Clavulina der Adria
1899: Wissenschaftliche Ergebnisse der Reisen in Madagaskar und Ostafrika (mit Alfred Völtzkow, Hans Schinz, Hans Strahl, Hubert Ludwig, Henri de Saussure)
1899: Die Hochgebirge der Erde
1902: Neuseeland
1902: Das grosse australische Wallriff
1903: Das Tierreich
1903: Porifera: Tetraxonia
1908: Tetraxonia der deutschen Südpolar-Expedition, 1901-1903
1913: Untersuchungen über die Skelettbildungen der Kieselschwämme: I. Die Mikrosklere der Caminus-Arten

^ In relation to "Australasia", another German-speaking explorer and geologist, Julius von Haast (1822-1887), was appointed as the inaugural Curator/Director of the Canterbury Museum, in Christchurch, New Zealand in 1867.

Barrett, L., Eckstein, L., Hurley, A.W. & Schwarz A. (2018), "Remembering German-Australian Colonial Entanglement: An Introduction", Postcolonial Studies, Vol.21, No.1, (January 2018), pp. 1–5. doi:10.1080/13688790.2018.1443671