Karl Weiß (entomologist)
Karl Weiß (born June 17, 1924 ; † December 10, 2018 in Buckenhof near Erlangen ) was a German entomologist and beekeeper .
Life
Karl Weiß, whose grandfather and father had already been a beekeeper, studied zoology and received his doctorate at the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen with a thesis on the learning behavior of bees and wasps. He then worked as a scholarship holder at the Bavarian State Institute for Beekeeping in Erlangen. He then looked after the test apiary at the fruit growing research institute in Jork for two years . In 1954 he returned to Erlangen and stayed at the state institute until his retirement in 1986. Under his leadership, the "Erlanger Beute" was developed as a modern booty for free standing. He was the author of the standard works The Weekend Beekeeper and Bees and Beehives and numerous scientific publications.
Honors
- Honorary beekeeper of the DIB (1988)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Karl Weiß: Experiments with bees and wasps in colored labyrinths. Zeitschrift für Tierpsychologie, Vol 10, I, 29–44, 1953, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1439-0310.1953.tb00379.x
- ↑ Obituary . DIB current, 1.2019
Web links
- Literature by and about Karl Weiß in the catalog of the German National Library
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | White, Karl |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German zoologist, beekeeper and beekeeper |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 17, 1924 |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 10, 2018 |
| Place of death | Buckenhof near Erlangen |