August Gruber

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August Gruber (born October 8, 1853 in Genoa , † November 23, 1938 in Schachen ) was a protozoologist .

Live and act

His parents were the businessman Gustav Adolf Gruber and Julie Schönleber. He studied science in Freiburg, Graz and Leipzig, where he in 1878 with the work over two freshwater Calaniden Dr. phil. received his doctorate. In 1879/80 he was assistant to August Weismann at the Zoological Institute of the Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg . After his habilitation, he was initially a private lecturer and assistant until he was appointed associate professor in 1883. He researched freshwater calcids, daphnids and prehistoric animals. He also conducted studies on cell division. Between 1878 and 1900 he wrote about 49 papers. From 1890 to 1893 he was secretary of the Upper Baden branch of the German Colonial Association and in 1892 also Vice President of the Anthropological Society. For thirty years he was chairman of the Freiburg Art Association . For several years he was involved in the Freiburg city council and in 1895 as a member of the commission in the founding of the city museum for natural history and ethnology. He was a member of the Baden State Committee of the German Fleet Association and the advisory board of the Luisen Women's Association, which collected donations for the German troops in the Herero War in 1904. In 1906 he was appointed Privy Councilor. In 1912 he became the institute director's deputy, but resigned from teaching the following year.

With his wife Eva, a daughter of Georg von Wedekind , he had eight children, including the zoologist Karl Gruber . The painter Gustav Schönleber was his cousin. His son Karl became German ski jumping champion in 1904. He chose the Villa Lindenhof in Lindau on Lake Constance , built by his uncle Friedrich Gruber , as his retirement home. On his 75th birthday, the city made him an honorary citizen. In 1885 he was elected a member of the Leopoldina .

Publications

  • Preliminary notification of new infusoria ; 1879, [1] , [2]
  • Small contributions to the knowledge of the protozoa ; 1880
  • About nuclear division processes in some protozoa ; 1882
  • About the ineffectiveness of the nucleus on movement, nutrition and growth of unicellular animals ; 1883
  • Microscopic vivisection of the trumpet animal ; 1884
  • The protozoa of the port of Genoa ; In: Nova acta leopoldina 46; Pp. 473-539, Halle 1884
  • About polynuclear protozoa ; 1884
  • About artificial division in infusoria
  • Studies on amoeba ; 1885
  • Loose memory sheets from my life ; Freiburg 1920
  • Outlines (autobiographical sketch), Stuttgart 1932

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Archive link ( Memento from October 9, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ^ A. Weismann: Selected letters and documents, p. 632
  3. ^ August Gruber: About two freshwater calanids: PhD thesis . Engelmann, Leipzig 1878 ( k10plus.de [accessed December 10, 2019]).
  4. ^ Colonial people. Retrieved December 10, 2019 .
  5. ↑ Wedekind, Georg Ferdinand Rudolph Freiherr von. Hessian biography. In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
  6. ↑ August Gruber: outline: . 2nd Edition. Krais, Stuttgart 1932 ( k10plus.de [accessed December 10, 2019]).
personal data
SURNAME Gruber, August
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German protozoologist
DATE OF BIRTH October 8, 1853
PLACE OF BIRTH Genoa
DATE OF DEATH November 23, 1938
Place of death Schachen