Hildegard Strübing

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Hildegard Strübing (born May 8, 1922 in Berlin ; † May 18, 2013 there ) was a German zoologist .

Life

Hildegard Strübing was the daughter of Agnes Strübing (1896–1978). Hildegard Strübing began studying biology, chemistry and geography in 1940 and received her doctorate from the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität in Berlin with a dissertation on the temperature sense of amphibians . She received her doctoral certificate on April 25, 1945. She initially worked with Konrad Herter until his retirement in 1959. In 1971 she was appointed professor at the Free University of Berlin . She mainly dealt with the acoustic and vibratory communication of cicadas (Auchenorrhyncha).

Hildegard Strübing received the Fabricius Medal of the German Society for General and Applied Entomology in 1995 . On the occasion of the entomologists' conference in Berlin, Ms. Strübing received the Insect Drummer Award in 2011 for her work on communication in insects. Ms. Strübing died shortly after her 91st birthday and was buried on June 20, 2013 in the Steglitz cemetery.

Publications

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Obituary notice in the daily mirror
  2. Konrad Herter (1979): Encounters with people and animals. Memories of a zoologist 1891-1978. Duncker & Humblot, Berlin. ISBN 3-428-04549-1 .
  3. ^ Annette Vogt (2005): From diligence and expertise - female students and academics at the Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences. In: Jahr, Christoph (Hrsg.): The Berlin University in the Nazi era. Volume I: Structures and People. Steiner, Stuttgart. ISBN 3-515-08657-9 . Pp. 179-192.
  4. Hildegard Strübing (1954): About preferred temperatures of amphibians. Journal of Animal Morphology and Ecology 43 (4): 357-386. doi : 10.1007 / BF00404879
  5. Hildegard Strübing (1966): A comparison of vocalizations of different Euscelis species (Homoptera-Cicadina). German Entomological Journal 13 (4-5): 351-358. doi : 10.1002 / mmnd.19660130408
  6. Werner Funke (1995): Laudation for Prof. Dr. Hildegard Strübing on the occasion of the presentation of the Fabricius Medal of the German Society for General and Applied Entomology on March 28, 1995 in Göttingen. Announcements of the DGaaE 10: 1–4.