Karl Camillo Schneider

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Karl Camillo Schneider (around 1930)
Self-portrait, August 14, 1904

Karl Camillo Schneider (born August 28, 1867 in Pomßen ; † March 1943 in Oleśnica , Poland ) was a German-Austrian zoologist , philosopher , writer , parapsychologist and painter . His official artistic author's abbreviation is "KC Schneider", monogram "KCS"; earlier the abbreviation “KC Schneid.” was also in use. His brother is the botanist of the same name, Camillo Karl Schneider .

Life

Schneider attended the Realgymnasium in Döbeln before studying natural sciences (zoology, palaeontology , mineralogy , chemistry and others) at the University of Leipzig from 1886 to 1889 and at the University of Munich from 1889 to 1890 , where he was awarded a Dr. phil. doctorate (1898 from the University of Vienna nostrified ). His dissertation is entitled " Histology of Hydra fusca ".

Between 1905 and 1932 he worked as an associate professor for zoology at the University of Vienna . After 1910 he devoted himself increasingly to questions of history and the theory of science. His correspondence with Albert Einstein has been preserved .

Schneider's fields of work were hydroids and siphonophores .

Schneider was a Protestant creed and later non-denominational .

painting

Landscape in the Wachau (around 1913)
Old house in the Wachau (around 1913)
Malcesine August 9th 1923

Schneider was a mood-impressionist landscape painter, the focus of his painting was the Wachau. His travels also took him to Italy and Switzerland. Most of his relatively small pictures were unsigned. In a later phase he was under the influence of French impressionists .

Works

  • Histology of Hydra fusca with special reference to the nervous system of hydropolypes . Dissertation, Munich 1890.
  • Studies on the cell . Gottlieb Gistel & Comp., Vienna 1891 Web link
  • Anatomy, histology and systematics of the siphonophores . 5 parts, Vienna 1894–1990
  • Hydropolypes from Rovigno, together with an overview of the hydropolypes system in general . 1897.
  • Text-book of the comparative histology of animals . Gustav Fischer Verlag, Jena 1902 doi: 10.5962 / bhl.title.1673
  • Vitalism . Franz Deuticke Verlag, Leipzig and Vienna 1903
  • Introduction to the theory of descent . Gustav Fischer Verlag, Jena 1906, 2nd edition 1911
  • Origin and essence of man . F. Deuticke Verlag, Leipzig and Vienna 1908
  • Attempt to justify the theory of descent . Gustav Fischer Verlag, Jena 1908
  • Animal histological internship for students and researchers . Gustav Fischer Verlag, Jena 1908
  • Lectures on animal psychology . Engelmann Verlag, Leipzig 1909
  • Natural history of mankind in 20 pictures. From prehistoric times to the future . Orion Verlag, Vienna and Leipzig 1915
  • Central Europe as a concept of culture . Orion Verlag, Vienna and Leipzig 1916
  • The world as it is now and how it will be. A new philosophy of nature, spirit and life. Orion Verlag, Vienna and Leipzig 1917
  • The possibility of a new German culture . In: Library of the Future 1 , Viennese literary establishment 1921
  • The position of today's science on parapsychic phenomena . In: Vienna Parapsychological Library 22 , Die Occkulte Welt 124/5 , Johannes Baum Verlag, Pfullingen 1924
  • The periodicity of life and culture . Akad. Verl.-Ges., Leipzig 1926
  • Euvitalistic Biology: On the Foundation of Culture . JF Bergmann Verlag, Munich 1926
  • The Viennese Revolution . Drama , CW Stern Verlag, Vienna 1931

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Einstein, Albert; Stachel, John J et al. (eds.): The collected papers of Albert Einstein . Ed .: Princeton, NJ: Princeton Univ. Press, 1987-2018. - 15 BC S. 496, 676 .
  2. ^ Page - 507 - in Botany and Zoology in Austria - In the years 1850 to 1900. Accessed on April 27, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Schneider, Karl Camillo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-Austrian zoologist
DATE OF BIRTH August 28, 1867
PLACE OF BIRTH Pomßen
DATE OF DEATH March 1943
Place of death Oleśnica , Poland