Carl Friedrich Roewer

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Carl Friedrich Roewer (born October 12, 1881 in Neustrelitz , † June 17, 1963 in Bremen ) was a German pedagogue , zoologist , arachnologist and museum director.

biography

Roewer studied natural sciences at the University of Jena and was awarded a Dr. rer. nat. PhD . From 1906 to 1907 he was assistant to his doctoral supervisor , the zoologist and philosopher Ernst Haeckel . As a candidate for a teaching position , he continued his training in Ilmenau and Hamburg .

In 1910 Roewer became a senior teacher for biology and chemistry at the secondary school on Dechanatstrasse. But his main interest was still zoology and he became a recognized specialist in the arachnids of the harvestmen . In 1923 his standard work, Die Weberknechte der Erde, appeared . In 1924 the Senate of the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen awarded him the title of Professor. Roewer became a member of the NSDAP in the 1930s .

In 1933 he was appointed director of the municipal museum for natural, ethnic and commercial studies in Bremen as the successor to Hugo Schauinsland . The museum was now called the “State Museum for Natural, Ethnic and Commercial Studies” and from 1935 “German Colonial and Overseas Museum”.

The display collections have been modernized. But the in Nazism usual topic Rassenkunde he met in the newly formed department of human evolutionary history and races .

In 1945, Roewer was fired, initially without any retirement benefits, and his private house was confiscated. Around 1950 he began with the continuation of his spider catalog, which appeared as the second part. Publications on the harvestmen followed.

Honors

  • The Peltonychia Roewer from the type of Travuniidae , a family of the harvestmen , has been named after him since 1935.

Works

Numerous publications on arachnology, especially on the harvestmen.

  • The harvestmen of the earth . G. Fischer, Jena 1923
  • Catalog of the Araneae from 1758 to 1940 . Volume 1, Natura, Bremen 1942
  • Catalog of the Araneae from 1758 to 1940 . Volume 2, general index 1954

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personal data
SURNAME Roewer, Carl Friedrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German educator, zoologist and museum director
DATE OF BIRTH October 12, 1881
PLACE OF BIRTH Neustrelitz
DATE OF DEATH 17th June 1963
Place of death Bremen