Lieselotte block

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Lieselotte Block (born August 2, 1918 in Berlin ; † October 18, 2012 there ) was a German anthropologist and university professor.

Life

Grave site , Lange Strasse 8, in Berlin-Lankwitz

Lieselotte Block worked at the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Anthropology, Human Heredity and Eugenics under the racial hygienist Eugen Fischer during the Second World War . It was here that she wrote her dissertation on skin fields on the back of the hand and the rest of the body , with which she received her doctorate in 1944 .

After the war she worked at the Technical University of Berlin . In 1970 she qualified as a professor and then took over a chair for anthropology at the TU Berlin until her retirement .

Lieselotte Block died at the age of 94 and was buried in the Lankwitz cemetery in Berlin.

Publications

  • About the skin fields on the back of the hand and the rest of the body (Diss.), In: Zeitschrift für Morphologie und Anthropologie, Vol. 41, H. 1 (1944), pp. 126–154
  • Changes in growth of features of the head and face in children (Habil.), In: Mitteilungen der Berliner Gesellschaft für Anthropologie, Ethnologie und Urgeschichte, Vol. 3. 1971, pp. 349–381

Web links

Commons : Lieselotte Block  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Obituary notice of the family, Tagesspiegel of October 28, 2012, p. 15
personal data
SURNAME Block, Lieselotte
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German anthropologist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH August 2, 1918
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH October 18, 2012
Place of death Berlin