Friedrich Schaller

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Friedrich Schaller (born August 30, 1920 in Gleismuthhausen , Upper Franconia ; † May 5, 2018 in Vienna ) was a German or Austrian zoologist .

Life

Friedrich Schaller was the son of the elementary school teacher Nikolaus Schaller and his wife Dorothea. He grew up mainly in Rothmannsthal . After graduating from the New Gymnasium in Bamberg , Schaller studied zoology at the University of Vienna from 1939 to 1944 with a focus on biology , anthropology , paleontology and soil science . After working as a research assistant at the Philipps University of Marburg and the Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz , he was ao in Mainz from 1947 to 1957. Professor . In 1950 he completed his habilitation with a paper on the ecology of the collembola of the Mainz sand . In 1958 he followed a call as a full professor at the Technical University of Braunschweig as well as institute and museum director in Braunschweig. In 1968 he changed to full professor and head of the 1st Zoological Institute of the University of Vienna. In 1987 he retired .

Schaller lived in Vienna.

Act

Friedrich Schaller was President of the Association of German Biologists (VDB) from 1962 to 1968 and President of the German Zoological Society (DZG) from 1970 to 1973 . He was also a reviewer for the German Research Foundation (DFG) for eight years .

The main areas of research were soil zoological studies and ethological studies on soil animals, especially Collembola (springtails) and tropical ecological research in South America , especially on the Amazon , and in Sudan , on soil animals and fish.

He published around 200 articles and book chapters on the bioacoustics of moths and Amazon fish , on biological language and conceptual criticism as well as on topics of current biology and its history. He is (co-) editor of magazines ( Oecologia , Zoologischer Anzeiger , Zoologica ).

honors and awards

Fonts

  • On the ecology of the collembola of the Mainz sand . Jena 1951.
  • The underworld of the animal kingdom. Small biology of soil animals . Berlin, Göttingen and Heidelberg 1962.
  • Collembola ( springtails ). In: Arthropoda, 2. Insecta, vol. 12, part 2, specials. 1970, 72 p.m. Fig.
  • as editor: Zoologica. Original treatises from the entire field of zoology . Stuttgart 1975.
  • Searching for a view of the world. Thoughts of a Central European about the possibilities of arriving at a “world view” . Linz 2004.

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Obituary for Univ. Prof. Dr. Friedrich Schaller. In: University of Vienna, Integrative Zoology. Retrieved May 21, 2018 .
  2. ↑ a b Werner Funke (2018): Obituary for Friedrich Schaller (August 30, 1920 - May 5, 2018). DGaaE News 32 (2): 102-112.
  3. ↑ FLG Wiki , accessed June 10, 2014.
  4. ↑ Prof. em. Dr. hcfDr. Friedrich Schaller on ZOBODAT
personal data
SURNAME Schaller, Friedrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German zoologist
DATE OF BIRTH August 30, 1920
PLACE OF BIRTH Gleismuthhausen , Upper Franconia
DATE OF DEATH 5th May 2018
Place of death Vienna