Albrecht Faber

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Albrecht Faber (born February 10, 1903 in Aalen , † December 17, 1986 in Tübingen ) was a German biologist who was particularly concerned with plant sociology and bioacoustics .

Life

Dedication by Albrecht Faber to the Halle zoologist Gerhardt on a special print from 1929

Albrecht Faber grew up in Tübingen . His father, Hermann Faber, worked as a dean . Faber's mother Sophie was born Sapper. He mainly studied in Tübingen, where he met the zoologist Jürgen Wilhelm Harms (1885–1956). In between he was also in Jena and Munich . The botanist Karl Ritter von Goebel was one of his teachers in Munich . Although he also considered a dissertation in zoology, Faber finally did his doctorate in botany with the subject "Plant sociological studies in southern Germany: on forest communities in Württemberg". From 1932 Faber worked in the botanical department of the Württemberg Natural History Collection (now the State Museum for Natural History Stuttgart ), initially as an assistant, later as chief curator and department head. In 1951, with the support of the German Research Foundation, he founded the “Research Center for Comparative Animal Voices and Animal Expression” based in Tübingen at the Museum in Stuttgart . In 1957 he became a member of the Max Planck Institute for Behavioral Physiology in Seewiesen . In 1962 the Tübingen branch was spun off from the Seewiesen Institute and was henceforth called the Research Center for Bioacoustics in the Max Planck Society , Tübingen. Faber retired in 1973, but was allowed to continue working in Tübingen with four third-party financed workers until the end of 1975. The research center was located in Biesingerstrasse 8, laboratories and other rooms also in Biesingerstrasse 6.

Faber created the term "bioacoustics". It was proposed by him for the first time in 1942 and outlined in more detail in a lecture at a biologist conference in Tübingen in 1946. Faber photographed Tübingen and a few people he knew in the 1950s. His extensive collection of color slides was handed over to the archive of the city of Tübingen in 2001. Due to the interesting motifs and the good color retention, the photographs were shown several times at exhibitions and also published in an illustrated book.

Publications (selection)

  • (1928): The determination of the German Geradflügler (Orthopteren) after their vocalizations . Journal of Scientific Insect Biology 23: 209-234.
  • (1929): The vocalizations of Orthopteren I . Journal of Animal Morphology and Ecology 13: 745-803. doi : 10.1007 / BF00408547
  • (1932): The utterances of the Orthopter II . Journal of Animal Morphology and Ecology 26: 1-93. doi : 10.1007 / BF00446389
  • (1953): Sound and sign language in insects: Comparative representation of forms of expression as temporal figures and their functions. Part 1. Message from the State Museum for Natural History in Stuttgart 287. ISSN 0341-0145.
  • Tübingen in the 50s: early color photos of an old university town , ed. by Udo Rauch, Tübingen: Silberburg-Verlag 2003, ISBN 978-3-87407-566-4 .

literature

  • Franz Huber : Albrecht Faber February 18, 1903 - December 17, 1986 (obituary for Faber), in: Annual report 1986 and annual accounts 1985: Obituaries (series: Max Planck Society, Reports and Communications, Issue 4/87 (1987), page 76) .
  • Research center for bioacoustics in the Max Planck Society in: Eckart Henning , Marion Kazemi : Handbook on the history of the institute of the Kaiser Wilhelm / Max Planck Society for the Advancement of Science 1911–2011 - Data and Sources , Berlin 2016, 2 volumes, Volume 1: Institutes and research centers A – L ( online, PDF, 75 MB ), pages 179–180 (chronology of the research center).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Landesarchiv Tübingen (accessed on March 23, 2012)
  2. ↑ a b c d e f g Ernst Schüz (1987): Albrecht Faber. Pioneers in bioacoustics, plant sociology. Annual notebooks of the Society for Natural History in Württemberg 142: 325–335.
  3. ↑ Archive on the history of the Max Planck Society (accessed on March 23, 2012)
personal data
SURNAME Faber, Albrecht
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German biologist
DATE OF BIRTH February 10, 1903
PLACE OF BIRTH Bask
DATE OF DEATH 17th December 1986
Place of death Tübingen