Carl Apstein

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Carl Apstein (1898)

Carl Heinrich Apstein (born September 19, 1862 in Stettin , † November 14, 1950 in Berlin ) was a German zoologist and scientific official.

Life

Carl Apstein was the son of the army supplies master Adolph Apstein and his wife Minna Apstein, née Westphalen. He attended high school in Halle an der Saale and studied at the universities of Leipzig , Freiburg i Br. And Kiel . In 1889 he received his doctorate with a thesis on the silk glands of genuine orb weavers to Dr. phil. and became assistant to Karl Brandt at the Zoological Institute of the University of Kiel. Here he participated in the processing of the extensive material of the plankton expedition . On May 18, 1898, he completed his habilitation in Kiel for zoology and comparative anatomy . From August 1898 to May 1899 he took part as a zoologist in the German deep-sea expedition led by Carl Chun with the steamer Valdivia . As after the plankton expedition, he then worked on the salps . Even after the German South Pole Expedition 1901–1903, this animal class was left to him for processing. On October 11, 1906, he was appointed associate professor in Kiel.

In 1911, Apstein moved to a scientific civil service position at the Prussian Academy of Sciences in Berlin. He now emerged primarily as the editor of scientific series and magazines in the field of zoology. These included “Scientific results of the German deep-sea expedition on the steamer 'Valdivia' 1898–1899” , “Nordic Plankton” , “Zoological Report” and “Negotiations of the German Zoological Society” . He was also the editor of the series “Das Tierreich. A compilation and identification of recent animal forms ” . He was also a member of the International Commission for Zoological Nomenclature and from 1918 to 1945 first secretary on the board of the German Zoological Society .

Apstein had been married to Anna Süverkrüp since June 24, 1905. The couple had three daughters.

He was awarded the Order of the Red Eagle, 4th class .

Fonts (selection)

  • Carl Apstein: Structure and function of the spinning glands of the Araneida . Inaugural dissertation, Kiel 1889.
  • Carl Apstein: The freshwater plankton. Method and results of the quantitative investigation . Kiel 1896 doi: 10.5962 / bhl.title.53613
  • Carl Apstein: Animal life of the high seas: travel companion for seafarers . Lipsius and Tischer, Kiel 1905.
  • Carl Apstein: The Thaliacea of ​​the Plankton Expedition. B. Distribution of the Salps . (= Victor Hensen (Ed.): Results of the Humboldt Foundation's plankton expedition , vol. 2), 1894, pp. 1-68.
  • Carl Apstein: The salps of the German deep-sea expedition . (= Carl Chun (ed.): Scientific results of the German deep-sea expedition on the steamer "Valdivia" 1898–1899 , Vol. 12), Fischer, Jena 1906, pp. 245–290.
  • Carl Apstein: The Salps of the German South Polar Expedition . (= Erich von Drygalski (Ed.): Deutsche Südpolar-Expedition 1901–1903 , Vol. 9), 1906, pp. 155–203.
  • Karl Brandt and Carl Apstein (eds.): Nordic Plankton , eight volumes, Lipsius and Tischer, Kiel and Leipzig 1901–1942.

literature

Web links

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Board of the German Zoological Society. Complete overview from 1890–2010 , accessed on February 25, 2010
personal data
SURNAME Apstein, Carl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Apstein, Carl Heinrich (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German zoologist
DATE OF BIRTH September 19, 1862
PLACE OF BIRTH Szczecin
DATE OF DEATH November 14, 1950
Place of death Berlin