Hans Querner

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Hans Querner (born September 22, 1921 in Hamburg ; † September 29, 2012 in Wernigerode ) was a German biologist . He is considered a pioneer in the history of biology in Germany.

Life

After the early death of his father, the son of a specialist in internal medicine moved to Wernigerode , where his grandfather, the pharmacist Forcke, was an honorary citizen. Here he first attended the Lyceum and later the Fürst-Otto-Gymnasium until his Abitur in 1940, then he left the Harz to study zoology, botany , chemistry and anthropology in Göttingen and Freiburg im Breisgau . In 1947 he was at Karl Henke (1895-1956) with the dissertation research on the wing shape of the flour moth Ephestia kühniella Z., especially a factor kfl <kurzflügelig>, which the genetics , had the form of education on his doctorate . 1955 followed the habilitation on zoology and developmental physiology with the writing developmental physiological studies on the influence of steroid hormones on juvenile fish Poeciliidae . From 1947 to 1951 Querner worked at the Zoological Institute in Heidelberg , until 1953 at the University of Cologne and from 1953 again in Heidelberg.

In 1962 he was appointed associate professor. From 1966 to 1970 he worked at the Institute for the History of Medicine at Heidelberg University. In 1970 he took over the management of the Department for the History of Biology, which he held until his retirement in 1984. In this function, he presented numerous fundamental publications on the history of German biology.

After the fall of the Berlin Wall, he returned to Wernigerode to retire in the hometown of his ancestors, who reached back to Wilhelm Reiffenstein .

Fonts

  • Investigations into the wing shape of the flour moth Ephestia kühniella Z., in particular the factor kfl <short-winged>, dissertation, Göttingen 1947
  • Developmental physiological studies on the influence of steroid hormones on juvenile fish Poeciliidae, habilitation thesis, Heidelberg 1955
  • Tribal history of humans, Stuttgart, Berlin, Cologne and Mainz 1968
  • as co-author: On the Origin of Species. New knowledge and perspectives in the theory of descent. Reinbek near Hamburg 1969 (5th edition, the. 1977, ISBN 3-499-60006-4 )
  • as compiler together with Hermann Lampe and Ilse Gärtner: The lectures of the general sessions at the 1st - 85th meeting 1822–1913 = The lectures of the general sessions of the 1st - 85th meeting, 1822–1913, series of publications on the history of the Assemblies of German naturalists and doctors (Volume 1), Hildesheim 1972 ( ISBN 3-8067-0241-1 )
  • as editor together with Heinrich Schipperges : Paths of Nature Research 1822–1972 in the Mirror of the Assemblies of German Natural Scientists and Doctors, Berlin, Heidelberg and New York 1972 ( ISBN 3-540-05887-7 or ISBN 0-387-05887-7 )
  • together with Armin Geus : German Zoological Society . 1890-1990. Documentation and history, Stuttgart and New York 1990 ( ISBN 3-437-30648-0 )
  • together with Ilse Jahn : Christoph Gottfried Jacobi and the freshwater polyps of Abraham Trembley . Dorothea Kuhn on her 80th birthday, Marburg an der Lahn 2003 ( ISBN 3-925347-66-6 )

literature

  • Armin Geus (Ed.): Miscellen for the history of biology. Ilse Jahn and Hans Querner on their 70th birthday. Essays and speeches of the Senckenbergische Naturforschenden Gesellschaft , No. 41. Kramer, Frankfurt am Main 1994, 209 pages, ISBN 3-7829-1134-2
  • Ilse Jahn: Hans Querner 80 years . In: German Society for the History of Medicine, Science and Technology. Newsletter. 51, 2001, pp. 187-188

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ memorial , volksstimme.de (accessed on 6 October 2012).
personal data
SURNAME Querner, Hans
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German biologist
DATE OF BIRTH September 22, 1921
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH 29th September 2012
Place of death Wernigerode