Alexander Sokolowsky

Alexander Sokolowsky (* 1866 in Hamburg ; † 1949 in Genoa (?)) Was a German zoologist .

Life

The son of the doctor Ferdinand Sokolowsky graduated from the general trade school. From 1887 to 1889 he studied natural sciences in Jena with Ernst Haeckel , where he worked as a scientific draftsman. After spending three semesters in Berlin, he followed Arnold Lang for another semester to Zurich, where he worked from 1893 to March 1890 as a teacher of anatomy at the School of Applied Arts. At the same time he was a librarian at the trade museum. He then worked for two and a half years at the Berlin Zoological Garden. His dissertation was accepted in Zurich on December 4th. His exams in comparative anatomy, botany and anthropology gave the grade average 5 (good).

Until 1903 (?) He worked as a scientific assistant at the Berlin Zoological Garden under Ludwig Heck . On August 1, 1903, he became director of the Düsseldorf zoological garden , but probably only for a short time. He was in contact with Carl Hagenbeck , returned to Hamburg in 1906 and became assistant director at the Hagenbeck Zoo in Stellingen. According to "Index biologorum" (1928) he worked as a zoology professor at the Transvaal University College in Pretoria.

Publications (selection)

• About the relationships between way of life and drawing in mammals ; 1895
• About the external covering in Lacertilians - a contribution to the phylogeny of Lacertilians ; 1899; Diss.
• An antelope that is suitable as a farm animal
• The amphipods of Heligoland ; Kiel, 1900
• Human studies - a natural history of all races on earth - a manual for everyone ; 1901
• Observations on the psyche of the great apes ; 1908
• Animal acclimatization. An organic zootechnical study. Hanover, 1909
• Beyond high culture. A contribution to the appreciation of humanity ; Hamburg, 1912
• The fauna of the tropics and their utilization ; Hamburg, 1913
• Carl Hagenbeck and his work ; Leipzig, 1928
• Poultry farming, domestic and fur farming ; approx. 1933 ( → table of contents )

literature

• Camillo Renato Amodio, The Zoologist Arnold Lang (1855–1914) , Zurich, 1997; Pp. 371, 173
• Negotiations of the Natural Science Association in Hamburg , Volumes 29–30 (1987), p. 54
• Lothar Dittrich and Annelore Rieke-Müller, Carl Hagenbeck (1844–1913). Animal trade and exhibitions in the German Empire , Frankfurt / Main, 1998, pp. 196–209
• Andreas W. Daum : Science popularization in the 19th century. Civil culture, scientific education and the German public 1848–1914 . 2nd, supplementary edition, Oldenbourg, Munich 2002, ISBN 978-3-486-56551-5 , 188, 386 390-392, 396, 511.
• Nigel Rothfels, Savages and Beasts. The Birth of the Modern Zoo , Baltimore / London, 2002

Individual evidence

1. ^ Letter from Sokolowsky to Ernst Haeckel, August 25, 2903