Franz Eilhard Schulze

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Franz Eilhard Schulze (born March 22, 1840 in Eldena near Greifswald , † November 2, 1921 in Berlin ) was a German zoologist and anatomist.

Life

Schulze was a son of the chemist Franz Ferdinand Schulze (1815–1873); he carried the middle name Eilhard in honor of his godfather Eilhard Mitscherlich . Schulze studied medicine at the Universities of Rostock and Bonn from 1859 . In 1863 he was promoted to Dr. med. PhD.

In 1864 he became a private lecturer in anatomy and in 1865 an associate professor for comparative anatomy at the University of Rostock. Until 1868 he was also a prosector here .

Schulze founded the Zoological Institute at the University of Rostock in 1871 and was full professor of zoology and comparative anatomy from 1871 to 1873. In 1872 he took part in the North Sea expedition to Pommerania .

In 1873 he moved to the University of Graz and in 1884 to the University of Berlin , where he became director of the newly founded Zoological Institute. In 1883 he received the Cothenius Medal of the Leopoldina . In the same year he was the first to describe Trichoplax adhaerens , one of the most basal multicellular animals and a member of the Phylum Placozoa.

In 1885 Schulze was elected a member of the Leopoldina. In 1892/93 and 1898/99 he was President of the German Zoological Society . In 1883 he was elected a corresponding member of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences . From 1884 he was a full member of the Prussian Academy of Sciences . In 1895 he became a corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Sciences in Saint Petersburg and in 1897 of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences .

Schulze had been married to Ida Taeger since 1871. The couple had four children, including the Marburg professor of theoretical physics Franz Arthur Schulze (1872-1942) and the Berlin chemist Arnold Schulze-Forster († 1946).

He died in Berlin in 1921. His grave is in the Lichterfelde park cemetery .

Fonts

  • About the finer structure of the cortex of the small brain. Stiller'sche Hofbuchhandlung, Rostock 1863
  • Trichoplax adhaerens , nov.gen., Nov. spec. Zool. Number 6, 92-97 1883
  • American hexactinellids based on the material of the Albatross expedition. Jena 1899
  • Hexactinellida . G. Fischer, Jena 1904
  • The xenophyophores of the Siboga expedition . Brill, Leiden 1906
  • Nomenclator animalium generum et subgenerum… Edited by FE Schulze, W. Kükenthal. Continued by K. Heider. Editor: Th. Kuhlgatz. Berlin 1926-

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ In the obituary in the German Biographical Yearbook and in the NDB, October 29, 1921 is given as the date of death.
  2. ↑ Death register StA Berlin-Lichterfelde, No. 788/1921
  3. ↑ See the entries by Franz Eilhard Schulze in the Rostock matriculation portal
  4. ↑ see page of the Leopoldina about the winners of the Cothenius Medal
  5. ↑ 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. 220.
personal data
SURNAME Schulze, Franz Eilhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German zoologist and anatomist
DATE OF BIRTH March 22, 1840
PLACE OF BIRTH Eldena near Greifswald
DATE OF DEATH October 29, 1921 or November 2, 1921
Place of death Berlin