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and put his son in the care of his grandmother. He continued to lecture and publish on zoological, medical and ethnographic subjects, and attained membership in a number of scientific societies across Europe and in the United States, but did not obtain another academic position. He spent most of the
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whose nearly intact frozen carcass was excavated from the Siberian permafrost in 1806. This represented one of the earliest attempts to reconstruct the skeleton of an extinct animal. (Tilesius made one notable error in this effort, exchanging the tusks so that they diverged instead of converged.)
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1799: "Addendum to the correction of individual views in the painting of Lisbon and individual fragments of an eyewitness to the knowledge of this capital city." In: , Latest paintings of Lisbon. With an appendix from the French by W. Tilesius. Leipzig, Karl Wilhelm Küchl
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1800: "On the state of the art of dissection in Portugal." In: Johann Christian Rosenmüller / Henry F. Isenflamm (ed.), Contributions to the art of dissection. Volume 1, Issue 3, Leipzig, Tauchnitz (pp. 383–435).
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1799: Johann Christian Rosenmüller / Tilesius William Gottlieb (ed.), Description of strange caves. A contribution to the physical history of the earth. Leipzig, Breitkopf and Haertel.
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on the Baltic Sea, with Tlesius joining the expedition at Copenhagen; included among his baggage were a violin and viola, which he played on the voyage. The Nadezhda sailed past the
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On 12 May 1807 he married Olympia von Sitzky, 20 years his junior, daughter of a Polish nobleman. A son Adolf was born the following year, but they were separated in 1809.
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by ship to Portugal. On this trip he studied marine animals, as well as the teaching and practice of medicine in Portugal. The results were published in several papers.
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1802: Year Book of Natural History for the display and evaluation of new discoveries and observations. Vol. 1, Leipzig, Karl Wilhelm Küchl.
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per year. His illustrated report on the expedition appeared in 1814. However, he did not win public recognition like his contemporary,
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De Bersaques, Jean (2011-05-13). "Wilhelm Gottlieb Tilesius – a forgotten dermatologist".
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Bursting the Limits of Time: The Reconstruction of Geohistory in the Age of Revolution
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1813: Fruits of the natural history of the first Russian circumnavigation of the Earth
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rest of his life in Mühlhausen and Leipzig, and died in Mühlhausen (by then part of
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and Brazil, around Cape Horn and across the Pacific Ocean to Japan, stopping at the
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German naturalist and explorer, physician, draftsman and engraver (1769-1857)
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One of his projects while in Russia was to reconstruct the skeleton of the
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In 1790 Tilesius began studies of natural sciences and medicine at the
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Category:Taxa named by Wilhelm Gottlieb Tilesius von Tilenau
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1800: Directory and classification of strange sea creatures
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In 1814, Tilesius returned from Russia to his hometown of
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Appointment in Moscow and role in Russian circumnavigation
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JDDG: Journal der Deutschen Dermatologischen Gesellschaft
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Full members of the Saint Petersburg Academy of Sciences
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The Fate of the Mammoth: Fossils, Myth, and History
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Wilhelm Gottlieb Tilesius

Gustav Schlick
Mühlhausen
Thuringia
marine biology
dermatology
naturalist
Author abbrev. (zoology)
German
naturalist
explorer
Order of St. Vladimir
Legion of Honour
Mühlhausen
Holy Roman Empire
University of Leipzig
Adam Friedrich Oeser
Pleissenburg
Johann Centurius Hoffmannsegg

Nuku Hiva
Moscow University
first Russian circumnavigation
Adam Johann von Krusenstern
Kronstadt
Canary Islands
Marquesas
Hawaiian
Kamchatka

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