Henryk Ferdynand Hoyer
Henryk Ferdynand Hoyer (also Heinrich Ferdinand Hoyer , born July 13, 1864 in Warsaw , † October 17, 1947 in Krakow ) was a Polish physician , anatomist and zoologist. He is considered the founder of the Polish School of Comparative Anatomy.
Life
Henryk Ferdynand Hoyer was the son of the physician Henryk Fryderyk Hoyer and his wife Ludwika, née Werner.
Hoyer attended the German grammar school in Bromberg , studied at the University of Breslau , the University of Strasbourg and the Friedrich Wilhelms University in Berlin, and received his doctorate in Strasbourg in 1892 .
He then worked as an assistant to Albert Kölliker at the University of Würzburg and to Gustav Schwalbe in Strasbourg . In 1894 he received an extraordinary professorship at the Jagiellonian University in Cracow and became head of the department of comparative anatomy. In 1904 he was appointed full professor. In the years 1909–1910 he was dean of the Philosophical Faculty, 1929–1930 rector and 1930–1931 vice rector of the Jagiellonian University.
On November 6, 1939, he and 182 of his colleagues were arrested by SS-Sturmbannführer Bruno Müller as part of the Krakow special action , taken to a prison in Breslau and deported to the Sachsenhausen concentration camp at the end of November . Hoyer survived and from 1941 to 1944 ran a pharmacy in a hospital for prisoners of war in Krakow.
He is considered the founder of the Polish School of Comparative Anatomy. His students included Edward Niezabitowski, Eugene Kiernik, Wladyslaw Polinski, John Prüffer, Wladyslaw Mierzejewski, Pawel Lozinski, John Marchlewski, Zygmunt Grodzinski, Joseph Fudakowski, Stanislaw Michael Sumiński, Zygmunt Fedorowenen Skow, and Szronison Stanison.
In 1924 and 1934 he was made an honorary doctorate from the Jagiellonian University. Hoyer was awarded the Order of Polonia Restituta (Komtur) in 1930 and the Golden Cross of Merit of the Republic of Poland in 1936 .
Him the subspecies was in honor Whitethroat Sylvia communis hoyeri Dunajewski named 1938th
Fonts (selection)
- About the finer structure of the spleen of fish, amphibians, reptiles and birds . Inaugural dissertation, Strasbourg 1892
- The vertebrate lymphatic system from the standpoint of comparative anatomy . Cracovie 1934 ( PDF )
- About the structure of the spleen . In: Morphologische Arbeit, 3, 2, 1894, pp. 229–300 ( digitized version )
- Zarys dziejów zoologii w Polsce . Polska Akademia Umiejętnosci, Kraków 1948 ( PDF )
literature
- Bo Beolens, Michael Watkins, and Michael Grayson: The Eponym Dictionary of Birds. Bloomsbury Publishing 2014 (short biography Hoyer, HF)
- Stanisław Feliksiak: Hoyer Henryk Ferdynand . W: Słownik biologów polskich. Stanisław Feliksiak (ed.). Warszawa: Państwowe Wydawnictwo Naukowe, 1987, pp. 211-212
Web links
- Literature by and about Henryk Ferdynand Hoyer in the bibliographic database WorldCat
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Hoyer, Henryk Ferdynand |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Hoyer, Heinrich Ferdinand |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Polish medic, anatomist and zoologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 13, 1864 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Warsaw |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 17, 1947 |
| Place of death | Krakow |