Heinrich Bolau

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Cornelius Karl Heinrich Bolau (born September 17, 1836 in Hamburg ; † May 25, 1920 ibid) was a German zoologist and zoo director in Hamburg.

Life

Heinrich Bolau was born on September 17, 1836 in Hamburg as the son of a coppersmith. He studied in Giessen, Heidelberg, Munich and Berlin and obtained his doctorate in 1866 in Göttingen with a "contribution to the knowledge of amphibian skin". phil. After previously teaching at the Johanneum High School , Bolau became director of the Hamburg Zoo on October 14, 1875 . On May 1, 1909, he retired. His son Hermann Bolau , born in 1871 , also became a zoologist and later director of the Düsseldorf Zoological Garden. Bolau was temporarily also chairman of the administrative commission of the Natural History Museum . Bolau was also involved in the " Natural Science Association of Hamburg " and was its chairman several times. In 1891 Heinrich Bolau was appointed a member of the Leopoldina . He died on May 25, 1920 in Hamburg.

Works

  • The geographic distribution of the major Pacific Ocean whales (1895)

literature

  • Ludwig Heck: cheerful and serious memories of zoo gardeners. In: The Zoological Garden (NF). Volume 13, 1941, pp. 355-361.
  • Gerhard Wagenitz: Göttingen biologists 1737–1945. (= Göttinger Universitätsschriften Series C, Catalogs; Volume 2.) Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1988, ISBN 3-525-35876-8 .
  • Andreas W. Daum : Science popularization in the 19th century. Civil culture, scientific education and the German public, 1848–1914 . 2nd, supplementary edition, Oldenbourg, Munich 2002, ISBN 978-3-486-56551-5 , pp. 99, 116 388 412, 457, 477.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Wagenitz (1988), p. 34
  2. ↑ a b Heck (1941), p. 357.
  3. ↑ Herbert Weidner : From the history of the Natural Science Association in Hamburg , in: Negotiations of the Natural Science Association in Hamburg , N [eue] F [olge] Vol. 30, Hamburg 1988, p. 132, PDF
  4. ↑ Heinrich Bolau's membership entry at the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina , accessed on September 26, 2012.

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personal data
SURNAME Bolau, Heinrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bolau, Cornelius Karl Heinrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German zoologist and zoo director
DATE OF BIRTH September 17, 1836
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH May 25, 1920
Place of death Hamburg