Karl Wagner (zoologist)

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Karl Wagner (born September 11, 1884 in Tuckum , Kurland , † September 27, 1958 in Nussloch near Heidelberg ) was a German zoologist .

Life

Karl Wagner, son of a commercial gardener, devoted himself to put- graduate studies of science and medicine at the University of Tartu , Leipzig , Freiburg and Bonn before 1909 the degree of Dr. phil. in Leipzig, in 1912 that of a Mag. zool. in Dorpat.

Karl Wagner was then employed from 1913 to 1915 in the Department of Fisheries and Fish Breeding of the Russian Agricultural Institute in Dorpat. After working in Siberia , in 1920 he founded the histological and neuropathological laboratories at the Physiological and Neuropathological Institutes of the University of Dorpat, which he headed until he moved to the Chair of Histology and Comparative Anatomy at the University of Kaunas in 1923 . After this chair was closed in 1925, he was employed as the managing director of the Party of the Germans of Lithuania and of the Cultural Association of the Germans of Lithuania.

In 1933 he accepted the offer for the full professorship for zoology at the Herder Institute in Riga , which he filled up until his dismissal in 1938. He then worked in the Posen Reichsarchiv from 1939 to 1940 and finally in the scientific department of the Boehlinger company in Mannheim until the end of the Second World War . Karl Wagner spent his twilight years in Ziegelhausen , which is now part of Heidelberg.

literature

publication

  • Contributions to the development of the youthful color dress of the trout S. fario, dissertation , Klinkhardt, 1910

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personal data
SURNAME Wagner, Karl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German zoologist
DATE OF BIRTH September 11, 1884
PLACE OF BIRTH Tuckum , Courland
DATE OF DEATH September 27, 1958
Place of death Nussloch near Heidelberg