Erich Reisinger

Erich Reisinger (born June 8, 1900 in Graz ; † August 20, 1978 ibid) was an Austrian zoologist and professor of zoology at the University of Graz .

Reisinger, the son of a printer, was from 1921 a demonstrator at the Zoological Institute of the University of Graz, where he received his doctorate in 1922 (investigations into the construction and function of the excretion apparatus in rhabdocoel turbellariums). In 1926 he was on an expedition to Greenland and in 1927 he went to the University of Cologne to study with Ernst Bresslau . He taught as a lecturer from 1932 and from 1933, after forced emigration from Bresslau, as the provisional director of the Zoological Institute. In 1939 he became an associate professor in Cologne. In the Second World War he was a soldier and a prisoner of war (until 1945) and then until 1954 in plant protection and pest control at the Chamber of Agriculture of Carinthia. In 1952 he became a full professor and in 1954 head of the Zoological Institute in Graz. In 1970 he retired.

In the tradition established in Graz by Ludwig Graff de Pancsova and Josef Meixner (1889–1946), he researched turbellaria (strudel worms) in particular , but also other worms. He dealt with their phylogeny, anatomy, physiology and systematics. He also dealt with the animal world in Styria in general.

1967/68 he was President of the German Zoological Society . With Curt Kosswig and Sören Ludvig Poul Tuxen he founded the magazine for zoological systematics and evolutionary research. From 1962 he was a member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences.

Fonts

• Changes in the animal world in the Graz area within the last sixty years, Mitt. Abt. Zool. Landesmus. Joanneum, Vol. 1, 1972, pp. 5-28.
• The Mediterranean, Illyrian and Pannonian fauna elements in Styria, Akad. Druck- u. Publishing house Graz 1965

literature

• R. Schuster: Erich Reisinger (1900–1978) commemorating, Mitt. Naturwiss. Verein Steiermark, 109, 1979, pp. 5-7, PDF