Hartmut Rothe

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Hartmut Rothe (* 1944 ) is a German biologist and retired professor of anthropology at the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen .

Life

Rothe studied anthropology, paleontology , anatomy and geology at the Saarland University and then at the Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel . In 1971 he graduated in Kiel his studies with a doctorate of Doctor of Science from. He was then employed as a research assistant at the institutes for anthropology at the Universities of Kiel and Göttingen . In 1980 he received his habilitation in anthropology in Göttingen and in 1987 he was appointed adjunct professor for anthropology.

Rothe was head of the primate ethology working group at the Göttingen Institute for Anthropology and until it was dissolved - as a result of his retirement in 2008 - at the same time head of a primate husbandry established in 1973 , which was housed in the Sennickerode ethological station from 1995 . His main areas of work were the tribal history of primates including humans and the behavioral biology of non-human primates, in particular the common marmoset monkey , which lived in large colonies in the Sennickerode field station. Rothe was also the author and co-author of numerous publications on human tribal history .

Fonts (selection)

  • Observations, analyzes and experiments on the manual use of Callithrix jacchus Erxleben, 1777. Dissertation. University of Kiel, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, Kiel 1971.
  • as editor: Biology and behavior of marmosets. Proceedings of the Marmoset Workshop, Göttingen, W-Germany, September 2–5, 1977. Proceedings , Göttingen 1978.
  • with Gerhard Heberer and Winfried Henke : The origin of man. Fischer, Stuttgart 1980, ISBN 978-3-43710605-7
  • The position of man in the system of primates. German Institute for Distance Learning at the University of Tübingen, Tübingen 1990.
  • with Winfried Henke: Paleoanthropology. Springer-Verlag, Berlin, Heidelberg and New York 1994, ISBN 978-3-54057455-2
  • with Winfried Henke: Dental phylogenesis of hominids. Quintessenz-Verlag, Berlin 1997.
  • with Winfried Henke: Tribal history of humans. An introduction. Springer Verlag, Berlin 1999, ISBN 3-540-64831-3 .
  • with Winfried Henke: Incarnation. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2003, ISBN 3-596-15554-1 .
  • with Bernhard Wiesemüller: Phylogenetic Systematics. An introduction. Springer Verlag, 2003, ISBN 978-3-642-62841-2 .
  • with Winfried Henke and Ian Tattersall (eds.): Handbook of Palaeoanthropology. Vol. I: Principles, Methods, and Approaches. Springer-Verlag, Berlin, Heidelberg and New York 2007.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Short biography: Hartmut Rothe. On: uni-kassel.de , as of September 8, 1997, last viewed on April 14, 2019
  2. ↑ Johann Friedrich Blumenbach Institute for Zoology and Anthropology: Geschichtliches. On: uni-goettingen.de , last viewed on April 14, 2019
  3. ↑ Ethological Station Sennickerode. On: primate.wisc.edu , as of August 2, 2000, last viewed on April 14, 2019
  4. ↑ Sub- collection of primate skulls and primate skeletons. On: uni-goettingen.de , last viewed on April 14, 2019
personal data
SURNAME Rothe, Hartmut
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German anthropologist
DATE OF BIRTH 1944