Heinrich Prell

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Heinrich Bernward Prell (born October 11, 1888 in Kiel , † April 25, 1962 in Tharandt , according to other sources in Dresden ) was a German zoologist and forest scientist .

Life

Grave of Heinrich Prell in the Loschwitz cemetery

Heinrich Prell comes from a family of artists. His father Hermann Prell received a professorship at the Academy of Fine Arts in Dresden in 1892 . After graduating from high school in 1907, he studied medicine and natural sciences in Freiburg , Munich and Marburg and specialized in zoology. After receiving his doctorate in Marburg in 1913, he worked as an assistant to Karl Escherich at the Saxon Forest Academy in Tharandt . After Escherich's departure from Tharandt, Prell moved to the University of Tübingen to Friedrich Blochmann (1858–1931). As early as the summer of 1914 Prell completed his habilitation with a thesis “On the Relationship Between Primary and Secondary Sexual Characters in Butterflies” and became a private lecturer in zoology and comparative anatomy. Among other things, he also gave lectures on ichthyology, fisheries and the history of animal development. After working as a field doctor in the bacteriological laboratories of the Wehrmacht during World War I, he was appointed associate professor at the University of Tübingen in 1919. In 1923 he accepted a position as a full professor at the Tharandt Forestry University . During this time he married Adrienne Renée Koehler, who had a doctorate in zoology. Since 1927 Prell was rector of the Tharandt Forestry University. By joining the Dresden University of Technology in 1929, he saved the Tharandt facility, which was threatened by austerity measures. In November 1933 he signed the professors' declaration of Adolf Hitler at German universities and colleges .

After the end of the Second World War , Prell took over the chair for general zoology of the mathematical and natural science faculty in Dresden in addition to his duties in Tharandt until its replacement in 1954. He also saved the Tharandt site again. In 1951, his scientific work was honored by membership in the Saxon Academy of Sciences in Leipzig. After his retirement in 1957, he continued the chair at the request of the faculty despite several serious illnesses.

Scientific fields of work

Prell's scientific work mainly included entomology . He dealt with the morphology of the leg taster (Protura) and butterflies, with virus infections in forest pests, in the silk moth ( Bombyx mori ) and in the honey bee ( Apis mellifera ), with bee losses through industrial exhaust fumes and with gradations of the gray larch moth ( Zeiraphera griseana ) and the Nun ( Lymantria monacha ). He also dealt with fur animal studies and was a member of the special committee for fur animal breeding of the German Agricultural Society in Berlin from 1927 to 1933 and in 1931 he became a member of the expert committee for fur animal breeding at the Reich Center for Fur Animal and Tobacco Research in Leipzig. In addition, he also dealt with historical zoology, with mating and gestation periods of some game species ( roe deer , brown bear , some species of marten ) and with the influence of hut smoke components on hair loss in red deer .

Web links

Commons : Heinrich Prell  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ H. Franck-Grosmann (1962): Professor Dr. Heinrich B. Prell † . In: Anzeiger für Schädlingskunde 35 (8): 126–127. doi: 10.1007 / BF01881069
  2. ^ Bernhard Klausnitzer , M. Roth, K. Klass, M. Nuss (2005): On the history and situation of entomology in Dresden . In: DGaaE-Nachrichten 19 (1): 4–16.
  3. ↑ H. Gäbler (1962): Prof. Dr. Heinrich Prell † . In: Zeitschrift für Jagdwissenschaft 8 (4): 165–166. doi : 10.1007 / BF01979581
personal data
SURNAME Prell, Heinrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Prell, Heinrich Bernward
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German zoologist and forest scientist
DATE OF BIRTH October 11, 1888
PLACE OF BIRTH Kiel
DATE OF DEATH April 25, 1962
Place of death Tharandt