Kurt Wolffhügel

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Kurt Wolfgang Wolffhügel (born December 2, 1869 in Mörlheim , † December 9, 1951 in Puerto Varas ) was a German veterinarian and parasitologist , helminthologist and moss collector .

Life

Kurt Wolffhügel attended high schools in Solothurn and Freiburg i. B. and took up an apprenticeship in a nursery in Erfurt. From 1890 to 1895 he studied at the University of Veterinary Medicine Stuttgart , the University of Veterinary Medicine Berlin and the University of Veterinary Medicine Dresden . After its approval in 1895 he studied at the University of Basel six semesters Natural Sciences and in 1900 in Basel in Zoology with his dissertation contribution to the knowledge of the bird helminths to Dr. phil. PhD .

After a brief activity as a veterinarian and as an assistant at the University of Veterinary Medicine in Berlin, he was appointed to a professorship for pathological anatomy and parasitology at the agricultural and veterinary training institute in Buenos Aires . After eight years of work, Kurt Wolffhügel accepted a professorship for pathological anatomy and parasitology at the veterinary school in Montevideo . Kurt Wolffhügel retired in 1923 and then lived on his estate in Chile .

His scientific focus was mainly on parasitological issues, in which he was particularly concerned with the parasites of domestic animals. He also set up a moss herbarium . He sent the mosses he had collected on his excursions to Chile to Theodor Herzog , who published them in 1923.

Kurt Wolffhügel was the first to describe the nematode ( Strongylida ) Gurltia paralysans Wolffhügel in 1933.

In 1935 Kurt Wolffhügel was accepted as a member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina .

Theodor Herzog named Hypopterygium wolffhuegelii Herzog in his honor in 1923, a deciduous moss of the order Hookeriales .

Originals described by Theodor Herzog are deposited in the Herbarium Haussknecht of the Friedrich Schiller University Jena (JE), duplicate material is also in the Herbarium Munich. Another part of Kurt Wolffhügel's moss herbarium came to the Munich herbarium as part of the herbarium of Hermann Karl Gustav Paul (1876–1964).

The German Entomological Institute received literature and insect material from him.

Fonts (selection)

  • Contribution to the knowledge of the avian helminths . Inaugural dissertation, University of Basel, Ch. Lehmann`s Nachf., U. Hochreuther, Freiburg i. Br. 1900
  • Paraplegia cruralis parasitaria felis, causada por Gurltia paralysans nov. gen., n. sp. (nematodes). In: Revista Chilena de Historia Natural, 37, 1933, pp. 190-192.

literature

  • Hans Sachtleben : Prof. Dr. Kurt Wolfgang Wolffhügel . In: Contributions to Entomology, 2, 1952, pp. 328–329 ( PDF )
  • Jan-Peter Frahm & Jens Eggers: Lexikon deutschsprachiger Bryologen , 2001, pp. 571-572
  • Theodor Herzog: Contributions to the bryophyte flora of Chile . In: Hedwigia, 64, 1923, pp. 1-18

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personal data
SURNAME Wolffhügel, Kurt
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wolffhügel, Kurt Wolfgang (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German veterinarian, parasitologist, helminthologist and moss collector
DATE OF BIRTH December 2, 1869
PLACE OF BIRTH Mörlheim
DATE OF DEATH December 9, 1951
Place of death Puerto Varas