Leopold von Ubisch
Leopold von Ubisch (born March 4, 1886 in Swinoujscie ; † July 26, 1965 in Paradis near Bergen , Norway ) was a German-Norwegian zoologist .
Life
Leopold von Ubisch was the son of the Prussian officer and director of the Berlin armory Edgar von Ubisch and his wife Anna, nee. Goldschmidt. After High School in Berlin , he studied law and received his doctorate in 1908 in Heidelberg to Dr. jur. He went on to study science, which he u. a. at the University of Rostock , which he graduated with a doctorate in 1912 . As a front-line fighter, he took part in the First World War and was decorated several times. After completing his habilitation in Würzburg in 1919 , he became an associate professor there in 1924. In 1927 he was appointed professor of zoology at the University of Münster and did research on embryology and developmental physiology.
After the transfer of power to the National Socialists , he was affected by hate speech and boycott actions by the Münster students, but was initially not dismissed as a front-line fighter in accordance with the exception provision in the law for the restoration of the civil service . As well as some of the professorial colleagues, especially the lecturer Heinrich Jacobfeuerborn incited against him, he settled in 1935 as emeritus . Then his wife Gudrun Stephansen Norwegian had emigrated to in 1935 with the sons Hans (* 1914), Jörgen (* 1916) and Otto (* 1919) for Norway and he was able to German occupation of Norway in 1940 at Marine Biological Laboratory mountains work. He lived in the village of Paradis near Bergen. Even during the war, one of his works was printed in the German Reich .
After the war he resumed his work in Bergen, and research stays in Naples and Heligoland took him ; he refused to return to the chair in Munster for political reasons, as he considered the anti-Semitic prejudices of German students and professors to continue to be effective looked. In 1954 he became a member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina .
His older sister, the Heidelberg biologist Gerta von Ubisch , emigrated from Germany in 1934.
Fonts (selection)
- The motives for the distribution of evidence in the old German trial , Berlin: E. Streisand, 1908. Diss. Heidelberg
- The importance of the newer experimental embryology and genetics for the evolutionary epigenesis problem , Leipzig: JA Barth 1942
- Development problems , Jena: G. Fischer, 1953
- Society for the Promotion of the Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität zu Münster: Leopold von Ubisch: Speeches u. Lectures held at d. Memorial service d. Math.-Naturw. Faculty d. Univ. Münster on February 25, 1966 , Münster: Aschendorff 1966. dnb
literature
- Gisela Möllenhoff; Rita Schlautmann-Overmeyer: Jewish families in Münster 1918 to 1945. Biographical Lexicon , Münster: Westfäl. Steam boat, 1995 ISBN 3-929586-48-7
- Kürschner's German Scholars Calendar 1928; 1935; 1950
- Susan Richter , Armin Schlechter (ed.), Between all worlds. The memoirs of the first Heidelberg professor Gerta von Ubisch , Ostfildern: Thorbecke 2011. ISBN 978-3-7995-0890-2
- Elisabeth-Maria Hettwer: In memory of Leopold von Ubisch , floor talk, University of Münster, 2015
Web links
- Literature by and about Leopold von Ubisch in the catalog of the German National Library
- Ubisch, Leopold from 1886-1965 at WorldCat
Individual evidence
- ↑ Edgar von Ubisch was director of the hall of fame dhm from 1895 to 1911
- ↑ See the entry of Leopold von Ubisch's matriculation in the Rostock matriculation portal
- ↑ Ute Deichmann: Biologists under Hitler. Harvard University Press, Cambridge 1996. ISBN 0-674-07405-X . Pages 72-74.
- ^ Member entry by Leopold von Ubisch at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on June 18, 2016.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Ubisch, Leopold von |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German-Norwegian zoologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 4, 1886 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Swinoujscie |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 26, 1965 |
| Place of death | Paradis near Bergen , Norway |