Eveline Du Bois-Reymond Marcus

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Eveline Du Bois-Reymond Marcus (born October 6, 1901 in Berlin ; † January 31, 1990 in São Paulo ) was a German-Brazilian zoologist and illustrator.

Life

Eveline Du Bois-Reymond Marcus was the youngest daughter of René and Frieda Du Bois-Reymond, as well as a granddaughter of the physiologist Emil Heinrich Du Bois-Reymond . Her father was also a physiologist who taught at the university in Berlin. When she was nine, Eveline started observing small animals under her father's microscope. From 1918 to 1919 she attended courses in laboratory technology. She then worked as a technician at the Universities of Bonn, Göttingen and Berlin. She planned a career in scientific research and began attending zoology courses at the University of Berlin from 1923. On March 11, 1924, she married Ernst Marcus (1893–1968) after they had met during his long internship, and dropped out of her studies. They lived in Berlin-Nikolassee , where Eveline Du Bois-Reymond Marcus worked as a draftsman. After Ernst Marcus, who taught at Berlin University, was fired because of the Nuremberg Laws , the couple moved to São Paulo in 1936 and took on Brazilian citizenship in 1940. Ernst Marcus taught at the University of São Paulo and began taxonomic studies on invertebrates native to Brazil . Eveline Du Bois-Reymond Marcus supported her husband in his work by illustrating his writings, making preparations and keeping observation protocols. She was also increasingly active as a zoologist herself, but never took a paid position in research and was initially not officially listed as the author of the jointly developed publications. However, her husband always mentioned her in the introduction to his publications and named many species after her ( evelinae ). Finally, writings appeared under the author's name Marcus, E. & E. , and later some only under Marcus, E. du Bois-Reymond . From 1924 to 1970 she and her husband published a total of around 220 writings. They mainly researched strudelworms , as well as tardigrade and snails and described numerous species for the first time. Many came from their expeditions to the coast of the state of São Paulo that they undertook after the Second World War. Even after Ernst Marcus' death, Eveline Du Bois-Reymond Marcus stayed in São Paulo and published other scientific research results, mainly on hindgill snails . In total, around 30 scientific papers were published by her during this time. She was also the co-author of Studies on the Neotropical Fauna (1976).

Awards

In 1973 she became an honorary member of the Brazilian Malacological Society and in 1979 of the London Malacological Society. For her achievements she was awarded two honorary doctorates , in 1976 from the University of São Paulo and in 1988 from the University of Marseille .

Dedication names

  • Fissurina evelinae Narchi , 1962

Publications (selection)

  • Opisthobranchia from the Red Sea and the Maldives. Academy of Sciences and Literature, Mainz 1960.
  • Mesogastropods from the São Paulo coast. Academy of Sciences and Literature, Mainz 1963.
  • Opisthobranchs from the Lesser Antilles. M. Nijhoff, Hague 1963.
  • Polycladida from Curaçao and faunistically related regions. Natuurwetenschappelijke studiekring voor Suriname en de Nederlandse Antilles, Amsterdam 1968.
  • On the genus Tornatina and related forms. Angus Graham Associates, Reading 1977.
  • An annotated check list of the western atlantic warm water opisthobranchs. A. Graham Associates [for] Malacological Society of London, Reading, 1977.
  • Systematics of the genera of the order Ascoglossa (Gastropoda). Malacological Society of London, London 1982.

literature

  • Diva Diniz Corrêa : Dr. Eveline du Bois-Reymond Marcus. In: Hydrobiologia , 227: XXIII-XXVI, 1991 ( PDF ).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Diva Diniz Corrêa: Dr. Eveline du Bois-Reymond Marcus In: Hydrobiologia , 227, xxiii.
  2. ↑ Konrad Herter: Encounters with humans and animals .: Memories of a zoologist
  3. ↑ a b Diva Diniz Corrêa: Dr. Eveline du Bois-Reymond Marcus In: Hydrobiologia , 227, xxiv.
  4. ^ List of the first descriptions of Marcus
  5. ↑ Memories, Biographies and Bibliographies of Famous Turbellariologists ( Memento of March 3, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 440 kB)
personal data
SURNAME You Bois-Reymond Marcus, Eveline
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-Brazilian zoologist and illustrator
DATE OF BIRTH October 6, 1901
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH January 31, 1990
Place of death São Paulo