Kurt Friedrich Reinsch

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Kurt Friedrich Reinsch (* 1895 in Kempten (Allgäu) , † 1927 in Munich ) was a German hydrobiologist and designer of microscopes .

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Reinsch was the youngest son of the Bavarian government councilor and railway engineer Friedrich August Reinsch and his wife Anna Elisabeth, née Berg. His sister was the poet Erika Spann-Rheinsch , his brother-in-law the philosopher Othmar Spann .

After attending high school in Munich, Reinsch began studying zoology at the Ludwig Maximilians University in 1912 . During the First World War he served as a volunteer in the Prussian Telegraph Battalion No. 2. In 1922 Reinsch received his doctorate on the subject of "The Entomostrake Fauna in its Relation to the Macroflora of the Ponds". phil. and then took up ichthyological research at Reinhard Demoll's experimental station in Munich.

In the autumn of 1923 Reinsch left Munich as a lieutenant in the reserve and a member of a volunteer corps. After attending the biology congress in Innsbruck, he stayed in Austria and took up residence in Vienna . There he worked as an assistant to Oskar Haempels at the chair for hydrobiology and fisheries economics at the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences . Reinsch also supported Haempel in his research on the biology of alpine lakes.

In 1925 Reinsch received a research contract from the Icelandic agricultural society Bunadarfjelag for the biological investigation of the freshwater areas of the island state. During his first quarterly research trip through Iceland, he suffered two riding accidents, the consequences of which were long-lasting pain.

After returning to Vienna, together with the C. Reichert microscope factory in Vienna, he began developing a pocket microscope for use in the war. Reinsch had to break off his second trip to Iceland due to severe pain, and his research remained unfinished. In 1927 Reichert brought the "Heimdall nach Reinsch field microscope", developed together with Reinsch, onto the market. In the same year the biologist patented the "microscope with continuously adjustable aperture".

Reinsch died of cancer in 1927 at the age of 31 after an operation in Munich.

Publications

  • The Entomostrakenfauna in their relation to the macro flora of the ponds , dissertation, Munich 1922

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SURNAME Reinsch, Kurt Friedrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German hydrobiologist and microscope designer
DATE OF BIRTH 1895
PLACE OF BIRTH Kempten (Allgäu)
DATE OF DEATH 1927
Place of death Munich