Friedrich Blochmann

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Friedrich Blochmann

Friedrich Blochmann (born January 21, 1858 in Karlsruhe , † September 22, 1931 in Tübingen ; full name: Friedrich Johann Wilhelm Blochmann ) was a German zoologist . He taught at the universities of Rostock and Tübingen .

life and work

The son of the Küblermeister of the same name and Katharina Joh attended a high school in his hometown and studied at the Polytechnic University of Karlsruhe and at the University of Heidelberg . In Karlsruhe he became a member of the Corps Cheruskia . On 3 March 1881 he was in Heidelberg as an academic student of Otto Bütschli Doctor of Philosophy PhD .

After completing his doctorate, Blochmann became an assistant at the Institute for Zoology in Heidelberg. Again under Bütschli's chairmanship, he received his habilitation in 1885 and has been a private lecturer since November 28th. He finally received the extraordinary professorship in 1888. On May 29, 1891 Blochmann became full professor of zoology and comparative anatomy at the University of Rostock and thus successor to Max Braun . He also became director of the zoological collections and the Institute for Zoology and a member of the examination committee for candidates for higher education. In the same year he married Anna, the daughter of the historian Eduard Winkelmann in Heidelberg , from whom three sons and two daughters were born.

Blochmann zu Michaelis accepted an appointment to full professorship at the University of Tübingen in 1898. His successor was Oswald Seeliger (1858–1908) in Rostock . He died in Tübingen in 1931 at the age of 73.

Blochmann had a talent for morphology , which Hermann Weber explains, among other things, by [s] a wonderful memory . He wrote a work on the freshwater protozoa and continued Bütschli's lectures on comparative anatomy .

In 1925 he became an honorary member of the Association for Patriotic Natural History in Württemberg.

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Remarks

  1. Friedrich Blochmann the Elder was the son of the Karlsruhe accountant Christoph Blochmann and Wilhelmine Späth
  2. Katharina Joh was the daughter of the Karlsruhe tailor Friedrich Zobel and Magdalene Meierhöfer
  3. ^ Quote from Hermann WeberBlochmann, Friedrich. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 2, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1955, ISBN 3-428-00183-4 , p. 309 ( digitized version ).

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Address list of the Weinheimer SC. 1928, p. 241.
  2. ^ Honorary members of the Association for Patriotic Natural History in Württemberg