Karl Lindemann (zoologist)

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Karl Lindemann

Karl Lindemann ( Russian Карл Эдуардович Линдеман Karl Eduardowitsch Lindeman ; born October 26, 1847 in Nizhny Novgorod , Russian Empire ; † February 1, 1929 in Ohrloff, Molotschna colony , Melitopol district , Ukraine ) was a Russian zoologist and ( entomologist ) Interests of the German-speaking minority in Russia .

Life

Karl Lindemann's father moved from Dorpat to Nizhny Novgorod in the 1830s and founded a medical practice. Lindemann's maternal grandfather - a Baron von Frey - was the personal physician of Tsar Paul I. He attended high school in Nizhny Novgorod and studied anatomy and physiology at the University of Kazan at the age of 15 ; at the age of 16 he went to the university in Moscow and in 1865 he finished his studies in natural sciences at the university in Dorpat . In 1863 he discovered a parasite of the human body ( Sarcocystis lindemanni ), which was named after him by Sebastiano Rivolta in 1878 .

He became an assistant, in 1870 extraordinary and in 1880 a full professor of zoology at the Petrovsky Agricultural Academy in Moscow . Since 1884 he was a member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldiana . His main research and teaching area were agricultural pests. In 1918 he moved to Kiev and from 1919 to 1921 toured the German settlements in southern Russia, Ukraine and the Crimea. In 1921 he became professor of agricultural entomology at the Faculty of Agriculture in Simferopol in the Crimea, in 1924 professor of entomology at Simferopol University . He spent the last years of his life in Ohrloff, part of the Molotschna colony , a colony of the Russian mennonites in Ukraine, where he died in 1929.

In addition to his work as a professor, he was politically active. Lindemann founded and headed from 1905 the Moscow German group of the Verband des 17. Oktober , a conservative-liberal party of the so-called Octobrists . Before 1914, Karl Lindemann emerged as an advocate for the rights of German settlers as Russian citizens with equal rights. During the war he protested decisively against the laws aimed at the elimination of German land ownership in the Russian Empire, criticized the government's discriminatory measures and the anti-German publicity in the press. Despite his great influence, he was unable to bring about the repeal of the liquidation laws passed by the Tsar in 1915.

After the bourgeois revolution in February 1917, Lindemann organized the All-Russian Congress of Russian Citizens of German Nationality in Moscow in April and August of that year , in which representatives of all denominations from 15 governorates took part. After the October Revolution , he supported the economic and cultural rebirth of ethnic Germans on the Crimean peninsula and the Ukraine.

Lindemann's son Vladimir (1868-1933) was a professor at the Taras Schwetschenko University in Kiev, as well as at the University of Warsaw .

Publications (selection)

  • Autobiographical Notes. In: German Life in Russia. Volume 2. 1924, pp. 195-197.
  • From the German colonies in Russia. Results of a study trip 1919–1921. Stuttgart 1924.
  • The most harmful cereal insects in Russia and their control. Zentralvölkerverlag of the Soviet Union, Moscow 1924.
  • The pests of the orchards and vineyards in the league of the councils-republics. Central publishing house of the peoples of the Federation of SRR Moscow 1926.

literature

  • Carlo von Kügelgen: Prof. Karl Lindemann. In: Deutsche Post from the East. 4, No. 2, 1929, pp. 25-27.
  • Carlo von Kügelgen: Karl Lindemann. In: German Biographical Yearbook. 11, 1929, 189-193.
  • J. Schleuning: Prof. Dr. Karl Lindemann. A helper and friend of the German colonists in Russia, a fearless fighter for law and justice. In: Home book of Germans from Russia. Stuttgart 1957, pp. 165-175.
  • Lindemann, Karl . In: Walther Killy , Rudolf Vierhaus (Hrsg.): Deutsche Biographische Enzyklopädie (DBE) . 1st edition. tape 6 : Kogel – Maxsein . KG Saur, Munich 1997, ISBN 3-598-23166-0 , p. 402 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Gerhard Piekarski Textbook of Parasitology . Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg 1954, pp. 110-111; Advances in Parasitology 20, 1982, p. 383.
  2. ^ Member entry by Carl Lindemann at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on April 11, 2015.


personal data
SURNAME Lindemann, Karl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lindemann, Carl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian zoologist, entomologist and representative of the interests of the German colonists
DATE OF BIRTH October 26, 1847
PLACE OF BIRTH Nizhny Novgorod
DATE OF DEATH February 1, 1929
Place of death Ohrloff, Molochna Colony , Melitopol Raion , Ukraine