Berthold Klatt

Paul Erich Berthold Klatt (born April 4, 1885 in Berlin , † January 4, 1958 in Hamburg ) was a German zoologist . He was a professor at the universities in Halle and Hamburg.

Life

Klatt was born in 1885 as the son of a senior teacher, graduated from high school in 1904 and then studied natural sciences in Berlin. In 1908 he received his doctorate with a zoological thesis and became an assistant at the Agricultural University in Berlin . Five years later he completed his habilitation in theoretical zoology at the University of Berlin . He later took part in the First World War, from which he returned injured in 1918. He started working as an assistant to Erwin Baur at the Institute for Hereditary Research in Berlin.

After his apartment was confiscated because he had attempted crossbreeding with dogs, he moved to the University of Hamburg . There he was appointed associate professor in 1923. After five years he accepted an offer from the University of Halle to teach there as a full professor of zoology. In October 1933 he received an offer from the University of Hamburg, which he accepted in April 1934. From 1934 to 1938 he was Dean of the Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences there. He taught there until his retirement in 1954. In 1931 he was elected a member of the Leopoldina .

publication

• Autobiography: Essence, Striving and Working - A Review of Life, Leipzig 1958.

literature

• Ernst Klee : The Personal Lexicon for the Third Reich - Who Was What Before and After 1945 , Frankfurt am Main, 2nd edition: June 2007, p. 313.

Web link

• Entry on Berthold Klatt in the Catalogus Professorum Halensis