Ludwig Boehmig

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Ludwig Robert Böhmig (born August 8, 1858 in Nieder-Ebersbach , † January 5, 1948 in Graz ) was a German zoologist and professor at the University of Graz .

Life

Böhmig was the son of a pastor. His teachers included Rudolf Leuckart , August Rauber , William Marshall and Carl Chun in Leipzig and Ludwig Rütimeyer in Basel. He completed his habilitation in Graz in 1887 and became an associate professor there in 1898. For a long time he worked for Ludwig Graff de Pancsova at the University of Graz and was his successor as director of the Zoological Institute in 1921, which he remained until 1929.

He dealt with different groups of invertebrates, especially vortex worms (turbellarians) and cordworms . He examined their anatomy, histology, and the development of their nervous system and organs. He also dealt with the taxonomy of turbellarians and cordworms, and he was the first to describe many species. For example, he worked on the turbellariums of the Belgian Antarctic expedition (published in 1908) and the plankton expedition of the Humboldt Foundation (published in 1895). In 1898 he became a member of the Leopoldina .

Fonts

  • The animal kingdom VI. The invertebrates, 2 volumes, Göschen Collection, 1909, 1911
  • The Cell: Morphology and Multiplication, Göschen Collection 1920
  • Turbellaria. Expedition Antarctique Belge, Antwerp: Buschmann 1908
  • Participation in: The freshwater fauna of Germany: an excursion fauna, G. Fischer 1909 to 1912
  • Participation with Graff von Pancsova : Vermes, HG Bronns Klassen und Ordnungs des Tierreichs, Volume 4, Leipzig, Akademische Verlagsgesellschaft 1904

He also wrote the section Turbellariums in K. Möbius' book on the fauna of East Africa (1897).

literature

  • Karl Grobben : History of Zoology, Morphological and Physiological Direction , in: Anton Handlirsch , Richard Wettstein : Botany and Zoology in Austria from 1850 to 1900 , Festschrift, published by the KK Zoological-Botanical Society in Vienna on the occasion of the celebration of its 50th anniversary , Vienna: A. Hölder 1901, p. 510, Biodiversity Library

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Member entry of Ludwig Robert Böhmig at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on March 21, 2016.
personal data
SURNAME Boehmig, Ludwig
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Böhmig, Ludwig Robert (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German zoologist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH August 8, 1858
PLACE OF BIRTH Nieder-Ebersbach
DATE OF DEATH January 5, 1948
Place of death Graz