Friedrich Simon Bodenheimer

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Friedrich Simon Bodenheimer in 1935

Friedrich Simon Bodenheimer , internationally also Friedrich or Fritz Shimon Bodenheimer and also simply Shimon Bodenheimer , (born June 6, 1897 in Cologne , † October 4, 1959 in London ) was an Israeli entomologist of German origin. He wrote two essential works on the history of biology and is considered the founder of entomology in Israel.

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The early years in Germany

Friedrich or Fritz was born in Cologne into a wealthy Jewish family. His father, Max Bodenheimer , was a prominent lawyer who also campaigned for Zionism , his mother Rosa Bodenheimer a committed women's rights activist . Fritz was taught Greek, Latin, literature, art, math, natural history, and calligraphy. At the age of 17 he wrote a study of the ancient Greek poetess Sappho . In 1914 he began studying medicine at the University of Munich ; However, this he had to interrupt due to the First World War . He was drafted and used as a soldier on the German Eastern Front. After coming across the entomological work of Karl Escherich , his interests turned to entomology. He moved to the University of Bonn , where he received his doctorate in 1921 under Richard Hesse with a thesis on the tipula insect genus (see: Schnaken ). Following his doctorate, Bodenheimer completed a few special studies at the Geisenheim fruit and wine research institute .

Research years in Palestine and Israel

After Bodenheimer experienced anti-Semitism in Germany and Russia, he decided in 1922 to move to Palestine. Before he finally moved to Palestine, he studied in Italy Coccoidea, the superfamily of scale insects . Here he worked closely with his Italian entomologist colleagues Filippo Silvestri and Guido Grandi .

In Palestine he joined the Jewish Agency's new agricultural research station near Tel Aviv. He worked at this institution from 1922 to 1928. The more economically oriented research work of these early years found its way into his work "The Pest Fauna of Palestine" from 1930.

In 1923 Bodenheimer married Rachel, the daughter of the Russian Zionist Menahem Ussishkin. Together with her he researched the pre-Linen entomological work. This work, which went far beyond economic aspects of entomology, culminated in the "Materials on the history of entomology to Linnaeus" (2 volumes 1928, 1929).

In 1928 he was made a "Research Fellow" and in 1931 head of the Institute for Zoology and Entomology of the newly established Hebrew University in Jerusalem. During the 25 years of Jerusalem, Bodenheimer published more than 420 scientific papers. In 1958 he published an introduction to the history of biology with "History of Biology".

His last publication was the autobiography "A Biologist in Israel" (1959). Bodenheimer died of complications after an eye operation on October 4, 1959 in a London hospital. His initially economic-entomological interests expanded extensively to an ecologically oriented scientific entomology and zoology.

Honors

Bodenheimer was accepted into the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina in 1932 .

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  • Isaac Harpaz: Frederick Simon Bodenheimer (1897-1959): Idealist, Scholar, Scientist . In: Annual Review of Entomology . tape 29 , no. 1-24 , 1984 ( annualreviews.org ).
  • BP Uvarov: Prof. FS Bodenheimer . In: Nature . tape 184 , November 26, 1959, pp. 937-938 ( nature.com ).

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The German-language article was created on the basis of the corresponding English-language Wikipedia article. The article was published primarily through the source “BP Uvarov: Prof. FS Bodenheimer. 1959. “differentiated.
  2. ↑ Isaac Harpaz. 1984.
  3. ↑ a b c d e f g h B. P. Uvarov. 1959.
  4. ↑ Member entry by Shimon Bodenheimer (with picture) at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina
personal data
SURNAME Bodenheimer, Friedrich Simon
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bodenheimer, Friedrich Shimon; Bodenheimer, Fritz Shimon; Bodenheimer, Shimon
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Israeli entomologist of German origin
DATE OF BIRTH June 6, 1897
PLACE OF BIRTH Cologne
DATE OF DEATH 4th October 1959
Place of death London