Fritz Peus
Friedrich ("Fritz") Peus (born April 22, 1904 in Siegen , † November 17, 1978 in Berlin ; actually Friedrich Peus ) was a German entomologist .
From 1923 to 1927 Peus studied zoology, botany and physics at the Westphalian Wilhelms University in Münster . In 1927 he received his doctorate in Münster under Heinrich Jacob Feuerborn . During the Second World War, Peus worked as an army enteromologist and worked in malaria research. He had joined the NSDAP, according to his own account in the denazification process in 1940.
After working in Berlin, Celle and Münster, he became head of the Diptera department of the Berlin Zoological Museum in 1947 . From 1959 to 1961 he was director of the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin . In 1960/61 he was professor of special zoology at the Humboldt University of Berlin and from 1962 until his retirement in 1969 he was full professor of applied zoology at the Free University of Berlin .
In 1976 he received the Fabricius Medal of the German Society for General and Applied Entomology . In 1959 he was elected a member of the Leopoldina .
Web links
- Literature by and about Fritz Peus in the catalog of the German National Library
Individual evidence
- ↑ Regionales Personenlexikon, article Friedrich Peus , accessed on February 7, 2016.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Peus, Fritz |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Peus, Friedrich |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German entomologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 22, 1904 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Wins |
| DATE OF DEATH | 17th November 1978 |
| Place of death | Berlin |