Hans Steiner (zoologist)

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Hans Steiner (born June 27, 1889 in Barcelona , † May 1, 1969 in Lugano , reformed , resident in Oberstrass ) was a Swiss zoologist .

Life

Hans Steiner, son of the merchant Albert Steiner, who had worked in Spain for many years, and the Spaniard Jacinta-born Siedler, devoted himself to studying zoology at the University of Zurich after graduating from the canton school, followed by engineering studies at the Swiss Federal Polytechnic , from 1910 onwards , which he completed in 1917 with a doctorate from Arnold Lang.

Hans Steiner - he subsequently worked as an assistant at the zoological institute in Zurich - was co-initiator and co-founder of the zoological garden in Zurich. From 1925 to 1929 Steiner served as President of the Zoo Society in Zurich and from 1929 as its first director when the Zoological Garden opened until 1932.

In the same year Steiner exchanged his position as director for a position as a private lecturer at the University of Zurich. In 1939 Hans Steiner received an extraordinary professorship for systematic zoology, comparative anatomy and animal geography, which he held until 1959. In addition, he worked from 1939 to 1959 as editor of the quarterly journal of the Natural Research Society in Zurich.

Steiner's research focus included the evolutionary differentiation of vertebrate extremities and the formation of bird feathers from reptile scales. His hereditary studies on the budgie are considered a standard work in classical factor genetics.

Hans Steiner was married twice, his first marriage to Aide in 1922 and Huber, who was born in 1933 to Fanny.

Fonts (selection)

  • The problem of the diastataxia of the bird's wing, dissertation , University of Zurich, 1917
  • More recent studies on the morphogenesis of the thoracic shoulder apparatus and the limb skeleton of vertebrates, 1923
  • Inheritance studies on the budgie Melopsittaus undulatus (Shaw): A casuistic contribution to the domestication problem, Orell Füssli Artistic Institute, 1932

literature

  • Hans Fischer: Festschrift for the 70th birthday of the editor Professor Dr. Hans Steiner, In: Volume 104 of the quarterly journal of the Natural Research Society in Zurich, Fretz, 1959, with catalog raisonné
  • Quarterly publication of the Natural Research Society in Zurich, volume 114, 1969, pages 509–512
  • Vincent Ziswiler: Steiner, Hans. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .

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