Karl Kraepelin (biologist)

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Karl Kraepelin

Karl Matthias Friedrich Magnus Kraepelin (born December 14, 1848 in Neustrelitz ; † June 28, 1915 in Hamburg ) was a German biologist, especially an entomologist, and director of the Natural History Museum in Hamburg .

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Karl Kraepelin was a son of the actor, music teacher and Reuter reciter Karl Kraepelin (1817–1882).

He attended the Carolinum grammar school in Neustrelitz and studied natural sciences from 1868 to 1870 in Göttingen and then in Leipzig . In 1873 he was awarded a doctorate degree. PhD.

Kraepelin was a teacher at the high school in Leipzig until 1878 and then until 1889 at the secondary school of the Johanneum in Hamburg , where he became a professor in 1887. From 1879 he was a member of the museum commission of the Hamburg Natural History Museum and its director from 1889 to 1914. In 1894 he was elected a member of the Leopoldina .

In 1886 he found 60 animal species in Hamburg's water supply systems , but his warnings were without consequences until the cholera epidemic of 1892 claimed thousands of lives in Hamburg.

Kraepelin achieved world renown as a specialist in scorpions, articulated and roller spiders as well as scolopenders . He was also committed - among other things, as co-author of the "Hamburg Theses" on school lessons in 1901 and as a member of the teaching committee of the Society of German Naturalists and Doctors - for a reform of natural history teaching in schools and a youth-friendly introduction to relevant topics. His guideline for biological teaching in the upper classes of secondary schools , first published in 1907, was continued among other titles after his death.

His brother was the psychiatrist Emil Kraepelin .

literature

  • Karl Fr. Müller: Karl Kraepelin. In memory of his life and artistic activity ; with a portrait of Kraepelin and some letters from Fritz Reuter. Schlotke, Hamburg 1884.
  • Herbert Weidner:  Kraepelin, Karl. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 12, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1980, ISBN 3-428-00193-1 , p. 640 f. ( Digitized version ).
  • Andreas W. Daum : Science popularization in the 19th century. Civil culture, scientific education and the German public 1848–1914. 2nd, supplementary edition, Oldenbourg, Munich 2002, ISBN 978-3-486-56551-5 .

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Remarks

  1. ^ Andreas W. Daum: Science popularization in the 19th century. Civil culture, scientific education and the German public 1848–1914 . Oldenbourg, Munich 2002, p. 58-60, 115 f., 409, 457, 497 .
  2. ^ Karl Kraepelin, Caesar Schäffer, Gustav Franke: Biological teaching work for higher schools: Life. Leipzig / Berlin 1939 ff.
personal data
SURNAME Kraepelin, Karl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kräpelin, Karl Matthias Friedrich Magnus (full name); Kräpelin, Karl; Kraepelin, Carl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German biologist and director of the Natural History Museum in Hamburg
DATE OF BIRTH December 14, 1848
PLACE OF BIRTH Neustrelitz
DATE OF DEATH June 28, 1915
Place of death Hamburg