Luitfried Salvini-Plawen

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Luitfried Salvini-Plawen (born June 1, 1939 in Vienna ; † October 22, 2014 ibid) was an Austrian malacologist , zoologist, historian and professor of zoology at the University of Vienna .

Salvini-Plawen came from a South Tyrolean noble family (therefore sometimes Luitfried von Salvini-Plawen). His father was an academic sculptor. After high school graduation in Garmisch-Partenkirchen (1959), where he went to school since 1945, and military service (officer training), he studied zoology and botany from 1962 at the University of Bonn and then at the University of Vienna and received his doctorate in zoology in 1966 under Wilhelm Marinelli ( Dissertation: Contributions to the anatomy and systematics of the Aplacophora (Mollusca: Aculifera ) ). From 1969 he was assistant and then senior assistant at the university's zoological institute with a research grant.

In 1972 he completed his habilitation in Vienna ( On the morphology and phylogeny of the molluscs: The relationships of the Caudofoveata and the Solenogastres as Aculifera, as Mollusca and as Spiralia ), was visiting professor at the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard University in 1974 and from 1977 associate professor for zoology in Vienna. 1980 to 1984 he was deputy director of the Zoological Institute and 2000 to 2004 director. From 1982 to 1995 he also studied history on the side with a master's degree. The topic of the diploma thesis, which was also published, was the medieval history of the Upper Venosta Valley , especially the area around Plawenn (home of his ancestors). In 1986 he became head of the Department of Special Zoology and Developmental History and Chairman of the Earth Sciences and Biology Examination Committee. From 1998 to 2004 he was chairman of the study commission for mathematics and natural sciences at the University of Vienna and from 1999/2000 he was president of the examination commission for biology. In 2004 he retired, but remained active in academia and teaching until his death.

He wrote around 150 publications on zoology and around a dozen on historical and scientific-historical topics, for example biographies of Rudolf Kner , Wenzel Benno Seidl , Johann Jakob Heckel and Ludwig von Bertalanffy , on the files of Gregor Mendel's teaching examination , the scientific research into South Seas and the history of zoology in Austria. In zoology he devoted himself to marine mollusks, especially Aplacophora, and other marine organisms such as cnidarians (Cnidaria). Many first descriptions (around half of the known species of Solenogastres ) and the introduction of higher-level taxa such as Vetigastropoda and Apogastropoda come from him . He and his school made fundamental contributions to the systematics of the molluscs and related to their anatomy and phylogeny. With Ernst Mayr he published a fundamental paper on the development of photoreceptors and eyes in the animal kingdom.

From 1998 to 2001 he was President and 2001 to 2004 Vice President of the Unitas Malacologia , which held its world congress in Vienna in 2001.

He also trained as an opera singer. As a historian, he published on the historicity of the Swan Knight's legend and the dating of the Nibelungenlied . From 2004 he was President of the Austrian Society for the History of Science.

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From him comes the section molluscs in Grzimek's animal life (as well as arrow worms and the introduction to collar animals (Branchiotremata), which according to the system at that time included acorn worms and wing gills , and arm carriers (Brachiata), such as beard worms ).

  • Tortoiseshell and furrow pods (Caudofoveata and Solenogastres), misunderstood molluscs on the seabed , Neue Brehm-Bücherei 441, Wittenberg 1971
  • with Ernst Mayr : On the evolution of photoreceptors and eyes , Evolutionary Biology, Volume 10, 1977, pp. 207-263
  • Antarctic and Sub-Antarctic Solenogastres. A monograph: 1898-1974 , Zoologica, Volume 128, 1978, pp. 1-315
  • A reconsideration of systematics in the Mollusca (phylogeny and higher classification), Malacologia, Volume 19, 1980, pp. 249-278
  • Early evolution and the primitive groups, in: ER Trueman (Ed.), The Mollusca, Volume 10. Evolution, 1980, pp. 59-150
  • Morphology: Haeckel's gastraeal theory and its consequences. In: Stapfia. Volume 56, Linz 1998, pp. 147-168, PDF on ZOBODAT
  • with Maria Mizzaro : 150 Years of Zoology at the University of Vienna, Negotiations of the Zoological-Botanical Society in Austria, Volume 136, 1999, pp. 1–76
  • with Maria Mizzaro- Wimmer: Practical Malacology, contributions to the comparative anatomical treatment of molluscs, Springer-Vienna 2001
  • Scientific exploration of the South Seas up to the end of the 18th century , Mensch-Wissenschaft-Magie, Volume 23, 2005, pp. 19–56
  • On the history of the biological theory of evolution , Denisia, Volume 20, 2007, pp. 7-22
  • with Matthias Svojtka: Fish, Petrefacts and Poems: Rudolf Kner (1810–1869) - a foray through his life and work , Denisia, Volume 24, 2008, pp. 1–132
  • with E. Redl: The nervous system of the Caudofoveata (Mollusca), a comparative anatomical and histological study, VDM Verlag Dr. Müller 2009
  • The zoology in the Habsburg monarchy , Mensch-Wissenschaft-Magie, Volume 27, 2010, pp. 63-80
  • with Gerhard Haszprunar: Mollusca / Weichtiere , in Wilfried Westheide, G. Rieger (Ed.), Special Zoology, Part 1, Springer Verlag, 3rd edition 2013, pp. 293–356

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References and comments

  1. On the history of Muntaplayr / Dörfl (Obervinschgau). The analysis of the Vignal-Käszins goods from 1438 in the historical context (12th-19th century) , Schlern-Schriften, 305, 1999, pp. 1–235
  2. ^ Salvini-Plawen: The files and data on the teaching examinations by Gregor Johann Mendel, Mensch-Wissenschaft-Magie, Volume 21, 2003, pp. 155–162
  3. ^ Salvini-Plawen: Gregor Johann Mendel (1822–1884), a biographical foray, in: D. Angetter et al. (Ed.), Happy He Who Can Know The Reason Of Things. Austrian physicians, scientists and technicians in the 19th and 20th centuries. Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, 2003, pp. 73–98
  4. Salvini-Plawen, On the historicity of the "Swan Knight," Archive for Cultural History, Volume 72, 1990, pp. 297–322
  5. ^ Salvini-Plawen: On the dating of the Nibelungenlied. References to the Andechs-Meranien house, communications from the Institute for Austrian Historical Research, Volume 103, 1995, pp. 26–43