Karl Heider

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Karl Heider (born April 28, 1856 in Vienna , † July 2, 1935 in Thinnfeld Castle , Deutschfeistritz , Styria ) was an Austrian zoologist .

Life

Origin and studies

Heider was the son of Moritz Heider (1816–1866) the founder of scientific dentistry in Austria and was the first president of the Central Association of German Dentists (CVdZ) from 1859 until his death in 1866 , as well as Marie Freiin von Thinnfeld, whose father Ferdinand von Thinnfeld ( 1793–1868) was not only an entrepreneur , but also minister of mining in Austria at times. A maternal great-uncle was the geologist and mineralogist Wilhelm Ritter von Haidinger .

After attending school at the Schottengymnasium in Vienna and at the Obergymnasium in Marburg an der Drau , he began studying medicine in 1871 and studied there until 1877, attending less the medical lectures than those of the philosopher Alois Riehl , the botanist Hubert Leitgeb (1835 –1888), the paleontologist Karl Peters and the zoologist Franz Eilhard Schulze . In 1877 he moved to the Philosophical Faculty of the University of Vienna and now studied zoology at the chair of Carl Claus , where he made a lifelong friendship with his assistant Karl Grobben .

After he's on December 23, 1879 Promotion to Doctor of Philosophy graduated, he again took a degree in medicine at the Department of physiologist Ernst Wilhelm von Brücke on. He was also impressed by the work of the anatomist Carl Rabl , completed his studies in 1883 with a doctorate in medicine and then did his military service until 1884 .

With his wife Helene, Freiin von Klimburg (1862–1918), he had two children: the young deceased son Hans and Doris (1892–1938), whom Margret Boveri accompanied in a car in 1938 across the Middle East to Iran.

University professor in Innsbruck and Berlin

After completing his habilitation , he became a professor at the Leopold Franzens University in Innsbruck . Later he accepted the call to the chair for zoology at the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität zu Berlin . There he finally became director of the zoological institute in 1924. In 1912 he was chairman of the Society of German Natural Scientists and Doctors . Since 1918 he was a member of the Prussian Academy of Sciences . In 1922 he was elected a corresponding member of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences .

In addition to his teaching activities, he also made significant contributions to the history of the evolution of invertebrates .

In addition, he was a member of the board of the German Zoological Society (DZG) for several years as a third and first vice president and as president from 1914 to 1915.

Publications (selection)

  • The genus Lernanthropus . Works from the Zoological Institute of the University of Vienna and the Zoological Station in Triest 2_3, 1879, pp. 269–368 online (PDF; 14.1 MB)
  • About the plant of the cotyledons of Hydrophilus piceus . Dep. Akad. Wiss. Berlin, 1886, pp. 1-47
  • On the metamorphosis of Oscarella lobularis O. Schm. Works from the Zoological Institute of the University of Vienna and the Zoological Station in Trieste 6_2, 1886, pp. 175–236 online (PDF; 8.9 MB)
  • The Empryonal Evolution of Hydrophlus piceus L. Gustav Fischer Verlag, Jena 1889, pp. 1-98
  • Reply to the remarks by V. Graber & # 145; s on my treatise on the embryonic development of Hydrophilus piceus L. Zool. Number 13, 1890, pp. 428-430
  • with E. Korschelt: Textbook on the comparative history of the development of invertebrates; special part . Gustav Fischer Verlag, Jena 1892
  • Has the doctrine of the cotyledons been shaken? . Zool. Zbl. 4, 1897, pp. 725-737
  • The zoological system. A reply . Zool.-bot. Ges. Wien 61, 1911, pp. 202–209 online (PDF; 707 kB)
  • Invertebrate phylogeny . In: The culture of the present. Third part, fourth section, fourth volume . BG Teubner, Leipzig Berlin 1914, pp. 453-529 online (PDF; 6.0 MB)
  • Councilor Prof. Kamill Heller (1823–1917) . Reports of the natural science-medical association Innsbruck 36, 1917, pp. 15–45

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Konrad Herter: Encounters with people and animals. Duncker & Humblot, 1979, ISBN 978-3-428-04549-5 , p. 132 ( limited preview in Google book search).
  2. ↑ "We all lie". In: sueddeutsche.de. May 10, 2010, accessed August 16, 2018 .
  3. ^ Members of the previous academies. Karl Heider. Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities , accessed on April 2, 2015 .
  4. ↑ Holger Krahnke: The members of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen 1751-2001 (= Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Philological-Historical Class. Volume 3, Vol. 246 = Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Mathematical-Physical Class. Episode 3, vol. 50). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2001, ISBN 3-525-82516-1 , p. 108.
  5. ↑ Board of the German Zoological Society. Complete overview from 1890–2012 ( Memento of the original dated August 31, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.dzg-ev.de
personal data
SURNAME Heider, Karl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian zoologist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH April 28, 1856
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH July 2, 1935
Place of death Thinnfeld Castle , Deutschfeistritz , Styria