Carl Isidor Cori

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Carl Isidor Cori, 1915

Carl Cori (* 24. February 1865 in Brüx , Empire of Austria ; † 31 August 1954 in Vienna ) was an Austrian zoologist and university teachers .

Life

Cori his doctorate in 1889 at the University of Leipzig to Dr. phil. and in 1891 at the Karl Ferdinand University as Dr. med. In 1892 he completed his habilitation with Berthold Hatschek in Prague. His field of work was the comparative anatomy of invertebrates , especially calyx and horseshoe worms .

As associate professor , he headed the Imperial and Royal Zoological Station in Trieste from 1898 , which he brought to international renown through marine biological research on the Adriatic . Appointed full professor in 1908, he taught again in Prague from 1919 to 1935 after the end of the Habsburg monarchy and the establishment of Czechoslovakia . In 1925/26, 1927/28 and 1930/31 he was rector of the German Karl Ferdinand University. In 1932 he was elected a member of the Leopoldina .

family

The Cori came late 17th century from the Papal States to Bohemia. Cori's father Eduard Cori (1812–1889) was an administrative officer and beekeeper in Brüx. The mother Rosina b. Trinks died in 1909. Cori's son Carl Ferdinand Cori received the Nobel Prize for Medicine in 1947 . The daughter Margarete Cori (* 1905) was an editor in Prague and married the geneticist Felix Mainx (1900–1983).

Fonts

  • The nephridia of Cristatella , 1893. GoogleBooks
  • The Buoyancy Sieve - A Device for Cleaning, Sorting and Conserving Pelagic Buoyancy , 1893. GoogleBooks
  • The object table aquarium , 1893. GoogleBooks
  • with Heinrich Georg Bronn : Classes and Orders of the Animal Kingdom: Worms , 1904. GoogleBooks
  • The vascular system of the young ammocoete , 1906. GoogleBooks
  • The nature lover on the beaches of the Adriatic and the Mediterranean , 1910.
  • The animal world of Germany and the adjacent parts of the sea according to their characteristics and according to their way of life: Mussels or Molluscoidea and tunicates or Tunicata: (Kamptozoa, Phoronidea, Bryozoa, Tunicata, Ascidiae) . G. Fischer 1930.
  • Animal biology: development, structure and performance of the animal body. An Introduction for Students of Medicine and Science , Urban & Schwarzenberg 1935. GoogleBooks
  • Kamptozoa, Phoronidea, Bryozoa , in: Handbuch der Zoologie, 1929–1941. GoogleBooks

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Zoological dissertation: Studies on the anatomy and histology of the genus Phoronis . GoogleBooks
  2. ^ An Austrian research ship: project of such a ship for the purpose of ocean-geographic and biological exploration of the Adriatic , 1906.
  3. ^ Helmut Dolezal:  Cori, Carl Isidor. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 3, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1957, ISBN 3-428-00184-2 , p. 360 ( digitized version ).
  4. ↑ Rector's speeches (HKM)
personal data
SURNAME Cori, Carl Isidor
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Cori, Carl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian zoologist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH February 24, 1865
PLACE OF BIRTH Brüx , Bohemia
DATE OF DEATH August 31, 1954
Place of death Vienna , Austria