Federico Wenzel

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Federico Eduardo "Fritz" Wenzel (born July 15, 1924 in Arbolito , Uruguay , † May 4, 2011 ) was a German protozoologist .

Life

Wenzel was born in Uruguay as the son of the farmer Fritz Wenzel and his wife Elisabeth, née Schneider. When he was two years old, his parents returned to Germany with him, where he attended school in Hamburg and received his school-leaving certificate on March 20, 1943.

He studied natural sciences at the universities of Hamburg and Erlangen. After the preliminary examination in physics, he attended zoological and botanical lectures and exercises from the winter semester 1948/49. In the summer of 1949 he began under the guidance of his teacher Hans-Juergen Stammer at the Zoological Institute of the University of Erlangen in ciliates to do research on which he received his doctorate 1952nd From 1954 to 1956 he carried out research at the Federal Biological Institute for Agriculture and Forestry . After his habilitation, he was professor in the Department of Biology at the University of Hamburg and at the Zoological Museum there from 1968 until his retirement in 1989 .

Honor taxon

In honor of Wenzel named Wilhelm Foissner one of his first described Wimpertierchen Hemisincirra Hemisincirra wenzeli (Foissner, 1987).

Fonts

  • The ciliates of the moss grass drier locations. Dissertation. University of Erlangen, 1952.
  • with Dietrich Baumert, Paul Steiner: On influencing the arthropod fauna of north-west German potato fields through the use of synthetic contact insecticides (= information from the Federal Biological Institute for Agriculture and Forestry, Berlin-Dahlem. 109). Parey, Berlin / Hamburg 1963, ISSN  0067-5849 .
  • with Dietrich Baumert, Paul Steiner: On the influence of the arthropod fauna in the alfalfa field by the insecticides DDT and HCH (= communications from the Federal Biological Research Center for Agriculture and Forestry, Berlin-Dahlem. 113). Parey, Berlin 1964, ISSN  0067-5849 .
  • with Dieter Matthes : The eyelash animals (Ciliata). Franckh, Stuttgart 1966.

literature

  • Kürschner's German Scholars Calendar Online
  • Who's who in Science in Europe , Francis Hodgson, 1978
  • CV in his dissertation

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Announcements from the Federal Biological Research Center for Agriculture and Forestry 1971, p. 66.
  2. ↑ Helmut Berger: Monograph of the Amphisiellidae and Trachelostylidae (Ciliophora, Hypotricha). (Monographiae biologicae 88), Heidelberg: Springer 2008, ISBN 978-1-4020-8917-6 , p. 437.
personal data
SURNAME Wenceslaus, Federico
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wenzel, Federico Eduardo (full name); Wenzel, Fritz (nickname)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German protozoologist
DATE OF BIRTH July 15, 1924
PLACE OF BIRTH Arbolito , Uruguay
DATE OF DEATH May 4, 2011