Helmut Hofer (zoologist)

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Helmut Otto Hofer (1985)

Helmut Otto Hofer (born December 22, 1912 in Mährisch-Weißkirchen , Moravia , † July 26, 1989 in Kassel ) was an Austrian zoologist and morphologist .

Hofer received his doctorate in philosophy from the University of Vienna in 1937. From 1949 to 1953 he was a research assistant at the Zoological Institute of the University of Vienna, and from 1953 to 1965 he was a researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Brain Research in Giessen , since 1962 in Frankfurt / Main . In 1965 he moved to the Delta Regional Primate Research Center (now Tulane National Primate Research Center) in Covington, Louisiana , USA, where he remained until his retirement in 1977. From then until his death in 1989 he continued his work at the Institute for Zoology and Comparative Anatomy at the University of Kassel .

Helmut O. Hofer is known for his contributions to the subjects of brain anatomy , comparative anatomy , paleontology and primatology , for which he received the “Senior Scientist Award” from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation . He was the first general secretary of the International Primatological Society. In 1958 he introduced the term “ circumventricular organs ” to describe unusual structures around the ventricles of the brain .

Fonts

  • The Carduelis carduelis group and the phylogenetic derivation of its races. Zool.-bot. Ges. Wien 85, 1936, pp. 60-87 online
  • About the brain and skull of Megadalapsis edwardsi G. Grandidier (Lemuroidea), together with remarks about some Airorhynic mammalian skulls and the question of the frontal sinus. Z. f. wiss. Zoologie , 157, Leipzig 1953, pp. 220-284
  • with Erich Thenius : Tribal history of mammals. An overview of the facts and problems of mammalian evolution . Berlin, Göttingen, Heidelberg 1960
  • with Günter Altner : The special position of humans. Scientific and humanistic aspects . Stuttgart, Gustav Fischer Verlag, 1972
  • About the interpretation of the oldest fossil primate brains . Bibliotheca primat, Basel, New York 1962
  • On the morphology of the circumventricular organs of the mammalian diencephalon. Negotiations of the German Zoological Society 55, 1958, pp. 202-251. PMID 20926517 .

literature

  • August Ludwig Degener, Walter Habel: Who is who? The German Who's Who, Volume 16 , Arani, Berlin, 1970 ISBN 3-7605-2007-3 , pp. 519-520.
  • Helmuth Zapfe : Index Palaeontologicorum Austriae (= Catalogus fossilium Austriae issue 15). Publishing house of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna 1971, p. 50 online
  • A. Oksche, EM Rodríguez, P. Fernández-Llebrez: The Subcommissural Organ: An Ependymal Brain Gland. Springer-Verlag, Berlin, New York, 1993, ISBN 978-3-642-78013-4 , pp. 5-8.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Homepage of the International Primatological Society. Retrieved September 6, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Hofer, Helmut
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hofer, Helmut Otto (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian zoologist and morphologist
DATE OF BIRTH December 22, 1912
PLACE OF BIRTH Mährisch-Weißkirchen , Moravia
DATE OF DEATH July 26, 1989
Place of death kassel