Georg Rüppell

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Georg Rüppell (born April 20, 1940 in Berlin ) is a German zoologist and biologist and retired professor of behavioral ecology at the TU Braunschweig .

Live and act

He studied from 1961 to 1967 at the Universities of Freiburg, Hamburg and Kiel. He then worked as a speaker at the IWF Knowledge and Media in Göttingen. In 1967 he did his doctorate under Professor Hermann Remmert (1931–1994) with the dissertation topic Periodic and long-term fauna shifts in the marine supralitoral . In 1972 his habilitation took place.

Georg Rüppell devoted himself to teaching in ecology , behavior and evolution , including many field internships in the Wadden Sea, on the rocky coast of Scotland and in local waters, as well as working groups that researched dragonflies, fish, ecotoxicology and fens.

Rüppell's personal areas of work and activities include bird and insect flight, behavior of dragonflies, together with Dagmar Hilfert-Rüppell, slow-motion analyzes of dragonfly behavior and several ZDF films as well as scientific films about the flight and reproduction of dragonflies, research trips to Spitsbergen, Africa, Japan , Thailand, India, Galapagos.

Works

  • Bird flight. Kindler Verlag, Munich 1975, ISBN 3-463-00611-1 and Rowohlt Verlag, Reinbek near Hamburg 1980, ISBN 3-499-17364-6 .
  • with Dagmar Hilfert-Rüppell, Gunnar Rehfeldt, Carsten Schütte: Europe's magnificent dragonflies . Westarp Verlag, Hohenwarsleben 2005, ISBN 3-89432-883-5 .
  • with Dagmar Hilfert-Rüppell: Jewel swinging - Gossamer Wings. Splendens Verlag, Cremlingen 2007, ISBN 3-00-020389-3 .

literature

  • Werner Nachtigall : Bird Flight: Vogelflug . Gustav Fischer Verlag, Jena 1990, ISBN 978-3-437-20330-5 .
  • Katrin Hofmann u. a .: Kürschner's German Scholars Calendar . KG Saur, Munich 1990, ISBN 978-3-598-23603-7 .
  • Otto Larink: The Zoological Institute of the Technical University of Braunschweig 1933-2008 . In: Ornithological Yearbook . tape 8 , no. 1 , 2008, p. 289-353 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Katrin Hofmann: Kürschner's German Scholars Calendar. P. 2674.
  2. ↑ Werner Nachtigall: Bird Flight: Vogelflug. P. 315.
  3. ↑ Sebastian Becker, Georg Rüppell: Interview with Prof. em. Georg Rüppell on his nature film productions. In: av.tib.eu. Retrieved September 13, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Rüppell, Georg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German biologist, zoologist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH April 20, 1940
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin