Dagmar von Helversen

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Dagmar von Helversen (born December 11, 1944 in Helmstedt ; † July 20, 2003 ; born Dagmar Uhrig ) was a German biologist .

Life

The daughter of a doctor and a Protestant pastor studied biology at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich and received her doctorate there in 1970 from Hansjochem Autrum . After her marriage to Otto von Helversen , she worked from 1971 to 1975 as a postdoc at the German Research Foundation (DFG) at the Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg with Bernhard Hassenstein . She then worked as a researcher in national and international institutes, including at the Max Planck Institute for Behavioral Physiology in Seewiesen. The main areas of research were behavioral biology and neuroethology . Most of her research results were developed on privately financed research trips.

In 1992 she was awarded the Academy Prize of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences . On January 31, 2003, she received an honorary doctorate from the Georg-August University of Göttingen for her research on orientation and knowledge of insects and bats . This honor was given on the grounds that it "has contributed significantly to the progress in behavioral physiology and neuroethology over the past 30 years", according to the laudation . She published much of her work together with Otto von Helversen , with whom she had three children.

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Dagmar von Helversen has published over 30 papers in scientific journals and articles in books.

  • Dagmar Uhrig: Investigations into the phonetic scheme of the female of Chorthippus biguttulus L. Orthoptera, Acrididae . Dissertation University of Munich, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Munich 1970.
  • with Otto von Helversen: Species recognition and acoustic localization in acridid ​​grasshoppers: A behavioral approach . In: Franz Huber, Hubert Markl (Ed.): Neuroethology and Behavioral Physiology . Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg 1983, ISBN 3-540-12644-9 , pp. 95-107.
  • with Otto von Helversen: How do locusts recognize their own song? In: Dierk Franck (ed.): Behavioral biology . Thieme, Stuttgart 1985, ISBN 3-423-04337-7 , pp. 227-231.
  • with Otto von Helversen: Innate receiver mechanisms in the acoustic communication of orthopteran insects . In: David M. Guthrie (Ed.): Aims and Methods in Neuroethology . Manchester University Press, Manchester 1987, ISBN 0-7190-2213-4 , pp. 104-150.
  • with Otto von Helversen: Pattern recognition and directional analysis: Routes and stations of information flow in the CNS of a grasshopper . In: Feliks G. Gribakin, Konrad Wiese, AV Popov (Ed.): Sensory Systems and Communication in Arthropods . Birkhäuser, Basel 1990, ISBN 3-7643-2360-4 , pp. 209-216.

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personal data
SURNAME Helversen, Dagmar von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Uhrig, Dagmar (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German biologist
DATE OF BIRTH December 11, 1944
PLACE OF BIRTH Helmstedt
DATE OF DEATH July 20, 2003