Ilse Jahn

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Ilse Jahn (born February 2, 1922 in Chemnitz , née Trommer; † May 8, 2010 in Berlin ) was a German biologist and museologist .

Life

Ilse Trommer studied biology from 1941 to 1942. In 1942 she married Wilhelm Jahn; In 1943 daughter Isolde was born. Her husband died in Russia in April 1945 .

After the birth of her daughter, she first worked as a painter in Chemnitz. From 1952 to 1956 she continued her biology studies at the University of Jena and graduated with a diploma. Then she worked as an assistant at the Ernst Haeckel House in Jena . In 1963 she received her doctorate in Jena. From 1962 to 1967 she worked on the Alexander von Humboldt letter edition of the German Academy of Sciences in Berlin . From 1967 to 1982 she was curator at the Museum für Naturkunde at the Humboldt University in Berlin ; There she completed her habilitation in 1979 and became a lecturer in museology in 1980 . In 1986 she was elected to the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina .

Jahn's main field of work was the history of biology . In 2002 she was awarded the Treviranus Medal .

Fonts (selection)

  • On the trail of life. The biological research of Alexander von Humboldt . Leipzig, Jena, Berlin 1969.
  • with R. Löther and K. Senglaub: History of Biology. Theories, methods, institutions, short biographies . Gustav Fischer Verlag, Jena 1982 .; 3rd, revised and expanded edition, special edition. Nikol, Hamburg 1985 (Kassel 2004), ISBN 3-937872-01-9 .
  • Basics of the history of biology . Gustav Fischer Verlag and UTB, Jena 1990.
  • Darwin & Co. A History of Biology in Portraits / ed. by Ilse Jahn and Michael Schmitt. 2 volumes. Munich: CH Beck, 2001. ISBN 3-406-44642-6 .

literature

  • Jahn, Ilse. In: Kürschner's German Scholars Calendar . 19th edition (2003). ISBN 3-598-23607-7 , Vol. 1, pp. 1463 f.
  • Short biography for:  Jahn, Ilse . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 1. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .
  • Michael Schmitt : Memories of Ilse Jahn (1922-2010), the "Grande Dame" of the Central European historians of biology. In: Zoosystematics and Evolution. Vol. 88 (2011), pp. 13-17, doi: 10.1002 / zoos.201200002 .
  • Ekkehard Höxtermann: Ilse Jahn (1922-2010): an obituary. In: Meeting reports of the Society of Friends of Natural Sciences in Berlin. New episode, Vol. 49 (2013), pp. 173-176.
  • About the author. In: Honors Alexander von Humboldt in 1869 , University of Potsdam.
  • NTM congratulates (article on Ilse Jahn's 70th birthday), in: NTM International Journal of History & Ethics of Natural Sciences, Technology & Medicine, December 1993, Volume 1, Issue 1, pp 57-64, with a bibliography of the writings of Jahn until August 1991

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ilse Jahn's membership entry at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on March 20, 2014.
  2. ↑ The Treviranus Medal at the VBIO.
personal data
SURNAME Jahn, Ilse
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German biologist
DATE OF BIRTH February 2, 1922
PLACE OF BIRTH Chemnitz
DATE OF DEATH May 8, 2010
Place of death Berlin