Eugen Korschelt

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Eugen Korschelt (born September 28, 1858 in Zittau , † December 28, 1946 in Marburg ) was a German zoologist .

Life

Teaching and research

Korschelt studied biology after graduating from high school and was appointed professor of zoology at the Philipps University of Marburg after completing his doctorate and habilitation .

In addition to his teaching activities, he mainly dealt with comparative and experimental development history and zoology. Work on biological regeneration and transplantation was also carried out . During his teaching activities, he was, among other things, the doctoral supervisor of Johannes Meisenheimer and Hermann Wurmbach , who received his doctorate in 1927 with a dissertation on the subject of the healing of broken bones in amphibians .

In 1892 Korschelt became head of the Marburg Zoological Institute and thus the successor to Richard Greeff . In this function he expanded the facility into a real institute after it had moved to the anatomy building of the Philipps University of Marburg in 1903. He was rector of Philipps University from 1904 to 1905 and from 1914 to 1915 .

He was also President of the German Zoological Society (DZG) from 1912 to 1913 . In 1918 he was elected a corresponding member of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences . In 1920 he was accepted as a corresponding member of the Prussian Academy of Sciences . In 1933 he was elected a member of the Leopoldina .

Publications

Eugen Korschelt wrote, together with the Austrian zoologist Karl Heider, the two-volume standard textbook on the comparative development history of invertebrates (general part 1902-1903, special part 1893). He was also co-editor of the ten-volume concise dictionary of natural sciences (1912–1915).

He also published numerous other specialist books and monographs such as:

  • On the formation of the middle cotyledon in echinoderms , 1899
  • Lifespan, Aging, and Death , 1917
  • Zoology , 1922
  • About healed fractures in some vertebrates , 1927
  • Regeneration and Transplantation (2 volumes, 1927–1931)
  • Healed fractures in wild and captive animals , 1928
  • Zoology. In: The information. A collection of lexically arranged reference books on all branches of science, art and technology with the collaboration of first experts [...]. Frankfurt am Main 1920–1931, Issue 27–29 (1931).
  • Further observations on healed fractures in wild animals , 1932
  • About the constancy in the occurrence of bone thickening on the fish skeleton , 1938.

Finally he wrote two autobiographies : First, Das Haus an der Minne. Memories from a long life (1939), and from half a century of biological research (1940).

Web links and sources

Wikisource: Zoologie (1914)  - Sources and full texts

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ see Hessisches Staatsarchiv Marburg (HStAMR), Best. 915 No. 5773, p. 200 ( digitized version ).
  2. ^ Zoological collection of the Philipps University of Marburg
  3. ↑ Rector's speeches in the 19th and 20th centuries - online bibliography (Historical Commission Munich)
  4. ↑ Holger Krahnke: The members of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen 1751-2001 (= Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Philological-Historical Class. Volume 3, Vol. 246 = Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Mathematical-Physical Class. Episode 3, vol. 50). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2001, ISBN 3-525-82516-1 , p. 138.
  5. ↑ regnum-animalia.com ( Memento from September 8, 2012 in the web archive archive.today )
personal data
SURNAME Korschelt, Eugene
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German zoologist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH September 28, 1858
PLACE OF BIRTH Zittau
DATE OF DEATH December 28, 1946
Place of death Marburg