Günther Schlesinger

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Günther Schlesinger (born December 20, 1886 in Dürnkrut ; † April 11, 1945 in Puchberg am Schneeberg ) was an Austrian scientist and museum official.

Life

Schlesinger graduated from high school in Vienna in 1905 and then studied at the University of Vienna . He completed this in June 1909 with a PhD in philosophy in the main subjects of zoology and paleontology. He then worked as a volunteer in the fishery and wastewater department of the Agricultural-Chemical Research Institute in Vienna and at the Natural History Court Museum. In 1910 he became curator and head of the natural science department at the Lower Austrian State Museum and in 1923 director of the Lower Austrian State Collection.

Act

Memorial plaque on Himberg in Puchberg am Schneeberg

In 1909 Günther Schlesinger published one of the first studies in the German language in the field of comparative behavioral research : On the ethology of the Mormyrids .

Together with the lawyer Adolf Merkl, Schlesinger played a key role in drawing up the first state nature conservation law in Austria, which was passed in 1924 at the state level in Lower Austria . This law was trend-setting and served as a guide for the other federal states. As a “Special Representative for Nature Conservation for the entire Ostmark”, from 1940 he put the Neusiedlersee and Seewinkel under protection as a landscape protection area.

literature

  • Lothar Machura : Obituary in the journal natur & land of the Austrian Nature Conservation Union ( online )

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Helmuth Feigl , G. Tuisl:  Schlesinger, Günther (1886–1945), natural scientist and museum official. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 10, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1994, ISBN 3-7001-2186-5 , p. 190.
  2. ↑ Günther Schlesinger: On the ethology of the Mormyrids . In: Annals of the Natural History Museum in Vienna. Volume 23, No. 3/4, 1909, pp. 282-311, introduction
  3. ^ Günther Gamper: 90 Years of the Nature Conservation Act ; in Environment & Energy 05 | 2014 ( Online )
personal data
SURNAME Schlesinger, Günther
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian scientist
DATE OF BIRTH December 20, 1886
PLACE OF BIRTH Dürnkrut , Austria
DATE OF DEATH April 11, 1945
Place of death Puchberg am Schneeberg