Irene Würdinger

Irene Tjadina Würdinger (born February 17, 1936 in Breslau ; † April 12, 2018 ) was a German biologist and university professor . She researched and taught at the University of Hildesheim in her specialty, ornithology. The scientist was the first women's representative at Hildesheim University.

life and work

Würdinger studied biology, chemistry and geography at the University of Munich and at the Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen . She did her doctorate with Konrad Lorenz with the dissertation: On the sound development and function of the sounds in geese. In 1981 she completed her habilitation in Marburg, and in 1982 she was re-qualified at the University of Hildesheim. In 1974 she was an academic adviser at the University of Hildesheim, in 1979 she became an academic senior adviser and since 1986 she has worked as an adjunct professor and university lecturer in the natural sciences. Her research dealt with, among other things, the sense of smell in birds. Together with employees of the Roemer- und Pelizaeus-Museum Hildesheim she developed the exhibition “No egg is like another” about the importance of the egg in the development of life. In 2009 she published the inventory catalog of the museum's stone coral collection, which was thus made accessible to a wider public for the first time.

Fonts

• The hard coral collection, Roemer and Pelizaeus Museum Hildesheim, Hildesheim, 2009
• The striped goose, Hildesheim, 2000, ISBN 978-3-88120-318-0
• Generation, ontogeny and function of the vocalizations in four species of geese, Munich, 1970

Web links

• In memory of Prof. Dr. Irene Würdinger
• Obituary notice
• Researchgate profile
• Publications
• Messages from the Roemer Museum Hildesheim