Friedrich Alverdes

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Friedrich Wilhelm Alverdes (born April 10, 1889 in Osnabrück , † September 1, 1952 in Marburg ) was a German zoologist and psychologist.

Life

He was the son of civil engineer Max Alverdes and attended secondary schools and the Johanneum grammar school in Hamburg until he graduated from high school in 1907. He studied zoology, botany and geology as well as medicine in Freiburg i. B., Munich and Marburg. In 1908 and 1909 he took courses in marine research in Bergen (Norway) , and in 1910 on a study trip to East Africa. In 1912 Alverdes received his doctorate from the University of Marburg with a dissertation on the nuclei in the salivary glands of the Chironomus larva . He was also able to prove that pearls are formed by the displacement of epithelial cells into the connective tissue of the shell of the mussel . In 1913 he did military service, from 1914 military service (awarded the Iron Cross, 2nd class , dismissed as first lieutenant in 1918). In 1919 Alverdes became a volunteer, then assistant at the Zoological Institute at the University of Halle .

In 1920 he completed his habilitation there and was appointed associate professor in 1924. In 1928 he was offered a position at the University of Marburg .

He published on race and speciation (1921), animal sociology (1923 and 1925) and devoted himself to the study of abnormalities. He also tried to induce mutations through radioactivity . Later, under the influence of Konrad Lorenz , he devoted himself heavily to animal psychology and behavioral biology .

Alverdes was a member of the DNVP and signed the confession of professors at German universities and colleges to Adolf Hitler in November 1933 . His younger brother Kurt Hermann Alverdes was a professor of medicine in Halle and Marburg.

Fonts

  • Animal psychology in its relation to human psychology . (1932)
  • Basics of Heredity (1935)
  • Life as Realization of Meaning (1936)

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ see Hessisches Staatsarchiv Marburg (HStAMR), Best. 915 No. 5785, p. 115 ( digitized version ).
personal data
SURNAME Alverdes, Friedrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Alverdes, Friedrich Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German zoologist and psychologist
DATE OF BIRTH April 10, 1889
PLACE OF BIRTH Osnabrück
DATE OF DEATH September 1, 1952
Place of death Marburg