Bernhard Dürken

Bernhard Heinrich Dürken (born September 20, 1881 in Geeste ; † November 30, 1944 in Breslau ) was a German university professor and co-founder of holistic biology.

Life

Dürks were of Roman Catholic faith. From 1902 Bernhard Dürken studied natural sciences at the Universities of Münster, Würzburg and Göttingen and received his doctorate in 1907 with a zoological thesis at the University of Göttingen. phil.

In 1908 he passed the state examination for the higher teaching post in Prussia in the subjects botany, zoology, physics and mathematics and completed his habilitation in 1911 as an assistant at the Zoological Institute in Göttingen in the Philosophical Faculty for Zoology.

In 1918 he was awarded the title of professor and in the same year he was appointed to a professorship at the Flanders University in Ghent. On September 17, 1919 he married in Kassel Anna nee Hermanns (1882-1942).

In 1920 he was given a teaching position for comparative and developmental history and in 1921 he temporarily represented the chair of zoology at the University of Giessen. In 1921 Bernhard Dürken followed the call to Breslau at the Silesian Friedrich Wilhelm University and became head of the department of the Institute for Development Mechanics. From 1922 he was a full professor in the medical faculty and from 1928 director of the Institute for Developmental Mechanics and Heredity.

In 1942 his wife Anna Hermanns died. After her death, Dürken married on October 7, 1944 in Hirschberg Dr. Anni born Woitzik.

Dürken died of blood poisoning in 1944 and was buried on December 4, 1944 in the Laurentius cemetery in Breslau.

Publications

• Introduction to experimental zoology. Berlin, 1919
• The phylogenesis. Questions related to their research. Berlin, 1921
• The main problems of biology. Munich, 1922
• General theory of descent. Berlin, 1924
• Mechanism and vitalism in the biologist's worldview. In: Hochland 21 (1924), pp. 301-310
• Experimental zoology textbook. Experimental evolution of animals. Berlin, 1928
• Development mechanics floor plan. Berlin, 1929
• Methods of Comparative Physiology. with special attention to invertebrates. Berlin, 1930
• Developmental Biology and Wholeness. A contribution to the redesign of the worldview. Leipzig, 1936

literature

• Anni Dürken: Theory of ontogenetic design by Bernhard Dürken , in: Philosophisches Jahrbuch 63 (1955) 93-106.

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• Hunger, Ulrich; Wellenreuther, Hermann (Ed.): Writings of the University Archives Göttingen . Göttingen, 2002
• Memorial words for Bernhard Heinrich Dürken spoken at the funeral ceremony on December 4, 1944 by the Dean of the Medical Faculty, Prof. Dr. Gottron