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{{Short description|Austrian zoologist, alpinist and traveler}}
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[[File:Robert Lendlmayer von Lendenfeld 1888.jpg|thumb|Portrait of Robert J. Lendlmayer von Lendenfeld]]
'''Robert J. Lendlmayer von Lendenfeld''' (1858-1913) was an [[Austrian people|Austrian]] [[zoologist]], [[alpinist]], and traveler. He was also a notable [[Spongiology|spongiologist]].
von Lendenfeld was one of a number of influential German-speaking residents {{em-dash}} such as [[Ludwig Becker (explorer)|Ludwig Becker]], [[Hermann Beckler]], [[William Blandowski]], [[Amalie Dietrich]], [[Wilhelm Haacke]], [[Diedrich Henne]], [[Gerard Krefft]], [[Johann George Luehmann|Johann Luehmann]], [[Johann Menge]], [[Carl Muecke (editor)|Carl Mücke (a.k.a. Muecke)]], [[Ludwig Preiss]], [[Carl Ludwig Christian Rümker|Carl Ludwig Christian Rümker (a.k.a. Ruemker)]], [[Moritz Richard Schomburgk]], [[Richard Semon|Richard Wolfgang Semon]], [[Karl Theodor Staiger]], [[George Henry Frederick Ulrich|George Ulrich]], [[Eugene von Guerard|Eugene von Guérard]], [[Ferdinand von Mueller]], [[Georg von Neumayer]], and [[Carl Wilhelmi]] {{em-dash}} 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.&nbsp;2).<ref>In relation to "Australasia", another German-speaking explorer and geologist, [[Julius von Haast|Julius von Haast (1822-1887)]], was appointed as the inaugural Curator/Director of the [[Canterbury Museum, Christchurch|Canterbury Museum]], in [[Christchurch|Christchurch, New Zealand]] in 1867.</ref>
== 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 fish]]es 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''
== Notes ==
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== References ==
* 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.&nbsp;1–5. {{doi|10.1080/13688790.2018.1443671}}
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