Arnold Jacobi

Arnold Friedrich Victor Jacobi (born January 31, 1870 in Leipzig , † June 16, 1948 in Dresden ) was a German zoologist , ethnographer , ornithologist and explorer .

Life

Jacobi was born in Leipzig as the son of the philosophy professor Victor Jacobi . He studied at the humanistic Thomas School in Leipzig until 1890 . He then studied anthropology with Emil Ludwig Schmidt , zoology with Rudolf Leuckart and William Marshall , geography and ethnography with Friedrich Ratzel, and Arabic and Russian philology at the University of Leipzig . He received his PhD in 1896 with a thesis on anatomic studies of Malay land snails to Dr. phil. He then worked as a secondary school teacher and passed the state examination for teaching at secondary schools in 1899.

He then worked in the biological department for agriculture and forestry at the Imperial Health Department in Berlin. In 1903 he became associate professor and in 1904 full professor for zoology (successor to Hinrich Nitsche ) at the Tharandt Forestry University . From 1906 to 1936 he was director of the Royal Zoological and Anthropological-Ethnographic Museum in Dresden . In addition, he was honorary professor for zoology and head of the zoological collection at the Technical University of Dresden from 1908 to 1935 . In November 1933 he signed the professors' declaration of Adolf Hitler at German universities and colleges .

He was chairman of the natural science society ISIS in Dresden . Jacobi set out on research trips to Lapland and the Kanin Peninsula in 1908 and 1913 . His important collections enlarged the holdings of the Ethnographic Museum in Dresden.

Jacobi died in Dresden in 1948 and was buried in the Outer Plauen cemetery .

Works (selection)

• Japanese coated pulmonate , Tokyo 1898.
• Anatomical studies on Malaysian land snails , dissertation 1899.
• Animal geography , Berlin 1904.
• Floor plan of the zoology for foresters , Tübingen 1906.
• Mimicry and related phenomena , Braunschweig 1913.
• Fifty Years of the Museum of Ethnology in Dresden , Dresden 1925.
• The sea otter , Leipzig 1938.

literature

• Gudrun Meier: Jacobi, Arnold Friedrich Victor . In: Institute for Saxon History and Folklore (Ed.): Saxon Biography .
• Hans Petzsch :  Arnold Jacobi. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 10, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1974, ISBN 3-428-00191-5 , p. 220 f. ( Digitized version ).

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Richard Sachse, Karl Ramshorn, Reinhart Herz: The teachers of the Thomasschule in Leipzig 1832-1912. The high school graduates of the Thomas School in Leipzig 1845–1912 . BG Teubner Verlag, Leipzig 1912, p. 80.
2. ↑ Confession, p. 132
3. ^ Technical University of Dresden (ed.): Graves of professors of the alma mater dresdensis in cemeteries in Dresden and the surrounding area . 2nd Edition. Lausitzer Druck- und Verlagshaus, 2003, p. 33.