Karl Hescheler

Karl Hescheler, around 1914

Karl Hescheler (born November 3, 1868 in Schönenwerd ; died October 11, 1940 in Zurich ) was a Swiss zoologist and the founder of paleontology at the University of Zurich .

Life

Hescheler was the son of August Hescheler and Emilie born. Michler. He himself remained single.

After attending high school in St. Gallen , he first studied at the University of Geneva and graduated from ETH Zurich in 1893 . Doctorate , he was in 1895 at the University of Zurich, where he was three years later qualified as a professor . After the extraordinary professorship from 1903, he was appointed full professor of zoology at the University of Zurich in 1909 . In 1914 he also took over the chair at the ETH. From 1914 to 1938 Hescheler was head of the zoological institute and director of the university museum.

In 1907, Hescheler was a founding member of the Swiss Society for Prehistory and the Swiss Paleontological Society . After first dealing with comparative anatomy and regeneration research, he later focused on archeozoology . He founded paleontology at the University of Zurich.

Emil Kuhn-Schnyder and Fritz Erich Lehmann were among his students .

Works (selection)

• Edited by Arnold Lang ; continued by Karl Hescheler: Handbook of the morphology of invertebrates. 2nd and 3rd edition. Fischer, Jena 1913.
• With Ernst Haeckel , Hugo Eisig : From the life and work of Arnold Lang. Dedicated to the memory of the friend and teacher. Fischer, Jena 1916.
• About regeneration processes in lumbricides. Fischer, Jena 1896.
• Sepia officinalis L. The common squid. An example of examining an animal on a comparative anatomical basis. Zurich 1902.
• To appreciate comparative anatomy. Basel 1920.
• The fauna of the pile dwellings in the Wauwilersee. Lucerne 1924.
• An unusual find from the mammoth from the canton of Aarau. Basel 1931.
• The zoological museum of the University of Zurich and its tasks. Zurich 1932.
• The animalworld. In: Prehistory of Switzerland. Volume 1, 1949, pp. 120-368 (expanded by E. Kuhn-Schnyder).

literature

• Obituary (with catalog raisonné). In: Quarterly journal of the Natural Research Society in Zurich. Volume 85, 1940, pp. 380-389.
• Obituary (with catalog raisonné). In: Negotiations of the Swiss Natural Research Society . 1940, pp. 445-453.
• Festschrift Karl Hescheler on the completion of his 70th year of age, November 3rd, 1938. Supplement to the quarterly publication of the Natural Research Society in Zurich . 83rd year, 1938.

Web links

• Vincent Ziswiler: Karl Hescheler. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland , accessed on April 22, 2018 .
• Publications by and about Karl Hescheler in the Helveticat catalog of the Swiss National Library .