Arnold Dodel Port

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Arnold Dodel-Port (born October 16, 1843 in Affeltrangen , Canton Thurgau as Arnold Dodel , † April 11, 1908 in Zurich ) was a Swiss botanist .

Arnold Dodel-Port (around 1880)

Life

Arnold Dodel was born in Affeltrangen as the son of the farmer Jakob Dodel. After training at the teachers ' college in Kreuzlingen , he worked as a teacher in Hauptwil (today the municipality of Hauptwil-Gotthaus) from 1863 to 1864 . After a stay in Geneva he attended the Polytechnic Zurich from 1865 to 1867 and studied natural sciences in the philosophy department at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich from 1867 to 1869 . There he was a student of the botanist Carl Wilhelm von Nägeli . In 1869 he received his doctorate in philosophy in Freiburg im Breisgau. After that he moved back to Zurich, where he wrote his habilitation thesis "The transition of the dicotyledon stem to the taproot" as a private lecturer in 1870 .

In 1875 he married Carolina Port (* 1856), daughter of a northern railway official in Vienna, with whom he published an anatomical-physiological atlas of botany in 1878. From 1880 until his retirement for health reasons in 1903 he was professor of botany at the University of Zurich . For many years, Dodel-Port had a very friendly relationship with the Austrian peasant philosopher Konrad Deubler . After his death in 1884, Dodel-Port put him in 1886 with the two-volume work: Konrad Deubler. Diaries, biography and correspondence , a literary monument.

In 1890, the marriage with Carolina Dodel-Port was divorced. In his second marriage, he married Luise Henriette Müller (1863–1946) from Hirschfelde in Saxony , daughter of Heinrich Müller (1824–1899), the owner of the Hirschfelde flax spinning mill HC Müller . From this marriage the two daughters Erika Molinari born. Dodel (1893–1931) and Hanna Dodel (1895–1986).

From 1899 to 1901 Dodel-Port was President of the German Freethinkers Association. In 1906 he was a founding member of the Deutscher Monistenbund . After divorcing his second marriage in 1906, he died on April 11, 1908. Dodel-Port, who corresponded with Charles Darwin and Ernst Haeckel , took an evolutionist-monist point of view in his writings and contributed to the popularization of modern evolutionary theory. Letters and materials from his estate can be found in the manuscript department of the Zurich Central Library .

Occasionally it is claimed that Arnold Dodel-Port also wrote under the pseudonym Rudolf Bommeli. But Rudolf Bommeli is a student of Dodel-Ports.

Fonts

  • The modern history of creation according to the current state of the natural sciences. FA Brockhaus, Leipzig 1875. online
  • At the lower limit of vegetable sex life , in: Kosmos magazine , 1st year 1877–1878, Verlag Ernst Günther, Leipzig, pp. 219–244.
  • Arnold Dodel-Port and Carolina Dodel-Port (eds.): Explanatory text to the anatomical-physiological atlas of botany for universities and secondary schools . Verlag JF Schreiber, Esslingen aN 1878-1883.
  • Illustrated plant life. Common original treatises on the most interesting and important questions of botany based on reliable work in recent scientific research. Caesar Schmidt Verlag, Zurich 1883.
  • Biological fragments. Contributions to the history of the development of plants. Theodor Fischer Verlag, Kassel 1885.
  • Arnold Dodel-Port (Ed.): Konrad Deubler. Diaries, biography and correspondence of the Upper Austrian farmer philosopher. B. Elischer Verlag Leipzig 1886.
  • Moses or Darwin? A school question. C. Schmidt Verlag, Zurich 1889.
  • From life and science; Collected lectures and essays Verlag JHW Dietz, Stuttgart 1896. ( International Library Volume 26)
  • "Either ... or? A reckoning on the question of Moses or Darwin ”at the turn of the century. Verlag JHW Dietz Nachf., Stuttgart 1901.
  • Ernst Haeckel as an educator. FEW Koehler Verlag, Gera 1906.
  • Konrad Deubler, the monistic philosopher in a peasant smock. His course of development from simple belief to clear cognition. Lehmann Verlag, Stuttgart 1909.

literature

  • Arnold Dodel † . In: The True Jacob . No. 569 of May 12, 1908, p. 5802 digitized
  • Werner Beyl: Arnold Dodel (1843–1908) and the popularization of Darwinism. Marburg writings on the history of medicine, Volume 12, Frankfurt am Main, Bern, Nancy, New York, 1984.
  • Andreas W. Daum: Science popularization in the 19th century. Bourgeois culture, scientific education and the German public 1848–1914. R. Oldenbourg Verlag Munich 2002.
  • Werner Michler: Darwinism and literature. Scientific and literary intelligence in Austria, 1859–1914. Böhlau Verlag, Vienna, Cologne, Weimar, 1999.
  • Hugo Iltis : Arnold Dodel, Life and Work of a Socialist Naturalist , 1925

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Arnold Dodel, in: Historisches Lexikon der Schweiz (HLS), see web links
  2. ^ Andreas W. Daum: Science popularization in the 19th century. R. Oldenbourg Verlag Munich 2002, p. 483.
  3. ^ Port (oo Dodel) (Miss.) Carolina , matriculation edition University of Zurich - matriculation number 4768
  4. ^ Arnold Dodel-Port (Ed.): Konrad Deubler. Diaries, biography and correspondence of the Upper Austrian farmer philosopher . B. Elischer Verlag Leipzig 1886, p. XII.
  5. ^ Müller (oo Dodel) (Miss.) Louise (Henriette) , matriculation edition University of Zurich - matriculation number 7676
  6. ↑ History of flax spinning , In: Gemeindeblatt Hirschfelde, 17th year, 2006 ( Memento from April 21, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 797 kB), p. 15
  7. ^ Max Schwarz : Since 1881. Biography of the publishing house JHW Dietz Nachf. , JHW ​​Dietz Nachf., Berlin / Bonn-Bad Godesberg 1973, pp. 43 and 44.
  8. ^ Marc Vuilleumier: Rudolf Bommeli. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . October 6, 2004 , accessed June 16, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Dodel-Port, Arnold
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Dodel, Arnold
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss botanist
DATE OF BIRTH October 16, 1843
PLACE OF BIRTH Affeltrangen
DATE OF DEATH April 11, 1908
Place of death Zurich