Armin Tschermak-Seysenegg

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Armin Eduard Gustav Tschermak, Edler von Seysenegg , (born September 21, 1870 in Vienna , † October 9, 1952 in Bad Wiessee ), was an Austrian physiologist . His father was the mineralogist Gustav Tschermak , who was raised to hereditary nobility in 1906 , his brother was the botanist and plant breeder Erich Tschermak-Seysenegg .

After graduating from high school, Armin Tschermak studied medicine in Vienna and Heidelberg at the upper secondary school in Kremsmünster . In 1895 he received his doctorate in Vienna. med. and went to Leipzig, where Ewald Hering taught, as his pupil he later saw himself. In 1899 he completed his habilitation in physiology (Habilitation: About the sense of color in indirect vision ). From 1899 to 1906 he was at the University of Halle, where he was initially assistant to Julius Bernstein , completed his habilitation again in 1900 and in 1904 received the title of professor. At Bernstein, he researched electric fish. In 1901 he visited Ivan Petrovich Pavlov in Saint Petersburg. From 1906 he was a full professor at the University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna , whose first rector he was from 1909 to 1911. From 1913 he was a professor in Prague at the German University and director of the Institute for Physiology ( Purkinje and Ewald Hering were among his predecessors there ). During the First World War, he headed a military hospital at his institute and he was also briefly at the front as a military doctor. As a professor at the University of Prague, he was loyal to the Czechoslovak administration and returned after leaving the country for a short time due to the Sudeten crisis in 1938, although the leadership of the Reich lecturers was against it. In 1939 he retired. He stayed in Prague until 1945 or 1947 and taught in Regensburg from 1947 . He died in an accident.

In 1909 he was elected a member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina . In 1937 he received the Cothenius Medal of the Leopoldina. In 1936 he became a member of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences with Thomas Hunt Morgan . He was also a member of other academies in Vienna, Prague, Turin and Rome.

His research areas were general physiology, physiology of the eye, bioelectricity , enzymes and genetics . An investigation published in 2011 of his correspondence with his brother Erich also showed that he played a not inconsiderable role in Erich's rediscovery of the Mendelian laws.

The Society of Friends of the University of Veterinary Medicine, Vienna (VUW) awards the Armin Tschermak von Seysenegg Prize annually to promote young scientists .

He was co-editor of the magazine for physiology, the magazine for sensory physiology and the archive for ophthalmology.

Fonts

  • General Physiology. A systematic presentation of the fundamentals as well as the general results and problems of the theory of animal and plant life, Berlin: Springer 1924.
  • Exact subjectivism in modern sensory physiology. 2nd ext. Edition - Vienna & Leipzig: Haim 1932 [1931].
  • Methodology of the optical sense of space and eye movements. - Berlin, Vienna: Urban & Schwarzenberg, [1937]
  • Introduction to physiological optics, Munich: Bergmann, 1942.
  • Guide to Physiology. Berlin: Urban & Schwarzenberg, 1949.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ University of Veterinary Medicine in the Vienna History Wiki of the City of Vienna
  2. ^ According to the professor catalog in Halle (see web links), probably distributed in 1947
  3. ↑ Member entry of Armin Tschermak von Seysenegg at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on June 18, 2016.
  4. ↑ Michal Simunek, Uwe Hoßfeld, Florian Thümmler, Olaf Breidbach (eds.): The Mendelian Dioskuri: Correspondence of Armin with Erich von Tschermak-Seysenegg, 1898–1951. Studies in the History of Sciences and Humanities 27. Prague: Institute of Contemporary History of the Academy of Sciences, Prague, Department of Genetics / 'Mendelianum' of the Moravian Museum, Brno, 2011
  5. ↑ Michael Simunek, Uwe Hoßfeld, Olaf Breidbach: 'Further Development' of Mendel's legacy? Erich von Tschermak-Seysenegg in the context of Mendelian – biometry controversy, 1901–1906 , Theory Biosci., Volume 131, 2012, pp. 243–252. With a short biography of Armin Tschmerak p. 245
personal data
SURNAME Tschermak-Seysenegg, Armin
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Armin Tschermak, Edler von Seysenegg; Tschermak-Seysenegg, Armin Eduard Gustav von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian physiologist
DATE OF BIRTH September 21, 1870
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH October 9, 1952
Place of death Bad Wiessee