Bernhard Hassenstein

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Bernhard Hassenstein (1965)

Bernhard Hassenstein (born May 31, 1922 in Potsdam ; † April 16, 2016 in Freiburg im Breisgau ) was a German behavioral biologist , co-founder of biocybernetics and professor at the Albert Ludwigs University of Freiburg .

Live and act

Bernhard Hassenstein was one of the most famous researchers in the fields of behavioral biology and biological cybernetics. His scientific work contains essential contributions to the movement vision of insects and the color vision of humans. He coined the terms “ Injunction ” (a means of definition in subject areas where the application of a definition is inappropriate) and “ Tragling ” (carried young animal). He determined the types of aggression and developed cybernetic models of the behavior of living beings, for example the maximum permeability model .

From 1939 to 1949 Hassenstein studied biology , physics and chemistry in Berlin, Göttingen and Heidelberg. From the third semester on he was a scientific student of the behavioral physiologist Erich von Holst . During his military service in 1943 he met his friend and later scientific partner Werner Reichardt . In 1945 he escaped from captivity and continued his studies. From 1948 he worked as an assistant at the Max Planck Institute for Marine Biology , Department of Holst, in Wilhelmshaven and then moved from 1954 to 1958 to the Zoophysiological Institute of the University of Tübingen , where he completed his habilitation in 1957.

In 1958, Hassenstein founded the world's first cybernetics working group at the Max Planck Institute for Biology in Tübingen , together with Reichardt, who had meanwhile completed a degree in physics , and the engineer Hans Wenking . In 1960 he was appointed professor of zoology at the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg as the successor to Otto Koehler , where he and Hans Mohr reformed the study of biology in the sense of a substantive and formal consolidation and mutual penetration of botany, zoology, human biology and the general biological subjects genetics, molecular biology, ecology etc.

From 1968 to 1972 Hassenstein represented the subject of biology on the Science Council ; From 1974 to 1981 he was chairman of the “Child Attorney” commission at the Baden-Württemberg Ministry of Education . From 1974 he supported his wife Helma Hassenstein in the establishment and implementation of the "Mother and Child Program - Aid for the Single Mother and Her Child" in Baden-Württemberg. In 1984 Bernhard Hassenstein retired. He lived in Merzhausen near Freiburg im Breisgau.

Main research areas

Memberships

Honors

Fonts (selection)

Essays

Monographs

  • Young animal and human child in the focus of comparative behavioral research. Ceremonial lecture (series of publications by the District Medical Association of North Württemberg; Vol. 17). Gentner, Stuttgart 1970.
  • Information and control in the living organism. An elementary introduction . Chapman Hall, London 1971.
  • Biological cybernetics. An elementary introduction . 5th edition Quelle & Meyer, Heidelberg 1977, ISBN 3-494-00184-7 .
  • The child of preschool and elementary school age . 7th edition. Herder, Freiburg / B. 1978, ISBN 3-451-09005-8 (together with Gottfried Heinelt and Christa Meves ).
  • Freiburg lectures on human biology . Quelle & Meyer, Heidelberg 1979, ISBN 3-494-00974-0 .
  • Instinct, learning, playing, insight. Introduction to behavioral biology . Piper, Munich 1980, ISBN 3-492-00493-8 .
  • Giving children what they need. Recognize development phases, promote development (Herder spectrum; Vol. 5327). 4th edition. Herder, Freiburg / B. 2003, ISBN 3-451-05327-6 (together with Helma Hassenstein).
  • Wisdom. Building blocks for the natural history of our mental abilities . 3rd edition Bucheinband.De , Berlin 2004, ISBN 3-938293-00-4
  • Behavioral Biology of the Child . 6th edition Monsenstein and Vannerdat , Münster 2007, ISBN 978-3-938568-51-4 (together with Helma Hassenstein).

As editor

  • Political behavior as a problem in biological anthropology . Alexander von Humboldt Foundation , Bad Godesberg 1968.
  • Schoolchildren help. The recommendation work of the commission “Advocate of the Child” Baden-Württemberg (Documenta pädiatrica). Hansisches Verlagkontor, Lübeck 1981.

Web links

Commons : Bernhard Hassenstein  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 90th birthday of Prof. Dr. Dr. hc Bernhard Hassenstein. On: uni-freiburg.de from May 31, 2012
personal data
SURNAME Hassenstein, Bernhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German behavioral biologist
DATE OF BIRTH May 31, 1922
PLACE OF BIRTH Potsdam
DATE OF DEATH April 16, 2016
Place of death Freiburg in Breisgau