Arno Wetzel

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Arno Wetzel (born April 23, 1890 in Rödlitz ; † November 19, 1977 in Schöneck / Vogtl. ) Was a German zoologist and university professor .

Life

Wetzel was initially from 1913 to 1917 a teacher at various German schools in South America . Subsequently, he studied from 1920 zoology, botany , mineralogy and chemistry at the University of Leipzig , where he in 1924 in Zoology with the dissertation Comparative cytological studies on ciliates to Dr. phil. PhD . He stayed at the university and completed his habilitation there in 1929 with the work Der Faulschlamm und seine ciliate Leitformen . From 1929 to 1936 he continued to work as a private lecturer in zoology in Leipzig.

In 1935, in addition to his university activities, Wetzel took on a job as a teacher at the higher commercial school in Hohenstein-Ernstthal . In 1936 he was appointed as a non-scheduled, extraordinary professor of zoology and comparative anatomy at the mathematics and natural sciences department of the philosophy faculty of the University of Leipzig. He held this position until 1945.

In 1952 Wetzel was appointed professor with a full teaching position for zoology and comparative anatomy at the Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences at the University of Leipzig , and in 1956 he was appointed professor with a chair for zoology at the Philosophical Faculty.

Publications (selection)

  • Comparative cytological studies on ciliates , Fischer, Jena 1925.
  • The digested sludge and its ciliate key forms , Springer, Berlin 1928.
  • with Alfred Kaestner : Textbook of special zoology , 2 volumes, Stuttgart 1963
  • Technical hydrobiology: drinking water, industrial water, waste water , Academic Publishing Society Geest and Portig, Leipzig 1969

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  1. ^ Place of death in the DNB dataset (as of May 4, 2016).