Bernd Heinrich (biologist)

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Bernd Heinrich (born April 19, 1940 in Bad Polzin ) is a retired German-American biologist and professor of biology at the University of Vermont . He is known worldwide for his research on bumblebees , wild geese and ravens . He is also a successful marathon and ultra-long distance runner .

Life

Bernd Heinrich's family comes from West Prussia . His father was the zoologist Gerd Heinrich . The family had to flee Poland in 1945 and after the Second World War lived in a small hut in the Hahnheide forest near Trittau near Hamburg for five years until they emigrated to Maine (USA) in 1950 .

Bernd Heinrich has a PhD in zoology and received two honorary doctorates . He is the author of several non-fiction books and, among other things, the winner of the John Burroughs Medal . In 2004 he was elected a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences .

Bernd Heinrich is a US citizen. He lives in Hinesburg , Vermont, and lives in a log cabin in his Maine forest.

Career as a marathon and ultra-long distance runner, records

Bernd Heinrich is an excellent long-distance runner. At the age of 40 he ran a marathon in 2:25.

A year later, when he took part in a 100 km run for the first time, he won in Chicago in 1981 in a time of 6:38:21, which at the time meant a world best time on the road and a US record that lasted 14 years. In 1983 he set a new US record of 156 miles and 1388 yards (252.327 km) over 24 hours and on May 19, 1984 a new US record over 100 miles (160.9 km, cinder track) in 12:27:01 which has not been undercut until today.

In 2007 he was inducted into the Hall of Fame of the American Ultrarunning Association as the second man after Ted Corbitt . He describes his own experiences with running and comparisons of human and animal endurance in his book "Laufen".

Fonts

  • Bumblebee Economics (1979, 2005)
    • Der Hummelstaat, List-Verlag 1994, List Taschenbuch 2001
  • Insect Thermoregulation (1981)
  • In a Patch of Fireweed (1984)
  • One Man's Owl (1987)
    • A researcher and his owl, List-Verlag 1993
  • Ravens in Winter (1989)
    • The soul of the ravens, List-Verlag 1992
  • Owl in the House: A Naturalist's Diary (1990)
  • Hot-Blooded Insects: Strategies and Mechanisms of Insect Thermoregulation (1993)
  • A Year in the Maine Woods (1994)
    • A Year in the Maine Woods, List Publishing 1996
  • Thermal Warriors: Strategies of Insect Survival (1996)
  • The Trees in My Forest (1998)
    • The trees of my forest, List-Verlag 2000, Nicol-Verlagsges. 2006
  • Mind of the Raven: Investigations and Adventures with Wolf-Birds (1999)
    • The Wisdom of the Ravens: Encounters with the Wolf Birds, List-Verlag 2002
  • Racing the Antelope: What Animals Can Teach Us About Running and Life (2001); New edition: Why We Run: A Natural History (2002)
    • To run. History of a Passion, List-Verlag 2003
  • The Winter World (2003)
  • The Geese of Beaver Bog (2004)
  • The Snoring Bird: My Family's Journey Through a Century of Biology (2007)
  • The Summer World (2008).
  • Life Everlasting: The Animal Way of Death (2012).
  • The Homing Instinct: Meaning and Mystery in Animal Migration (2014).

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ List of active members by class, October 24, 2014
  2. ↑ http://www.americanultra.org/stats/statframeset.htm ( Memento from July 17, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) scroll down to track records
personal data
SURNAME Heinrich, Bernd
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-American biologist, long-distance runner
DATE OF BIRTH April 19, 1940
PLACE OF BIRTH Bad Polzin