Margaret Altmann

Margaret Altmann (* October 6, 1900 in Berlin as Margarete Altmann; † July 6, 1984 in Boulder (Colorado) ) was a German - American biologist who specialized in animal husbandry and psychobiology . She was one of the first women to work in the fields of psychobiology, ethology and animal husbandry with a focus on livestock farming .

Youth and education

Margaret Altmann was born in 1900 in Berlin-Lichterfelde as the daughter of the lawyer and high official of the Prussian Ministry of Culture Friedrich Wilhelm Ludwig Altmann (1861–1918) and his wife Antonie nee. Leonhard (1872–1920) born. Her older brother was Hans Altmann . She received her doctorate in agricultural sciences from the University of Bonn in 1928 and worked for several German agricultural science offices. Eventually she moved to the United States , where she received her second PhD in animal rearing in 1938 from the Department of Psychobiology at Cornell University in New York . In the same year she also became an American citizen .

Career

In 1941 Altmann moved to Hampton University in Virginia to take up the chair in genetics and animal husbandry. From 1948 to 1956 she lived in Colorado , USA, and worked there in a biological research center. During this time she began psychobiology study and wrote several publications about the behavior of large mammals , such as elk , moose and reindeer . Then as now, this is considered a male profession. From 1959 to 1969 she taught at the University of Colorado . In 1962 she was appointed professor of psychology and biology . In 1969 she became an Emerita .

Altmann was a member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science , the Genetics Society of America, and the American Society of Mammalogists .

Publications

Margaret Altmann: A Study of Behavior in a Horse-Mule: With Animal Sociograms . In: Sociometry . tape 14 , no. 4 , 1951, ISSN 0038-0431 , p. 351-354 , doi : 10.2307 / 2785319 , JSTOR : 2785319 .

Individual evidence

^ ^A ^b ^c ^d ^e Tiffany K. Wayne: American Women of Science Since 1900 . ABC-CLIO, 2011, ISBN 978-1-59884-158-9 ( google.de [accessed December 16, 2019]).
^ ^A ^b P. PG Bateson, Paul Patrick Gordon Bateson, PH Klopfer: Perspectives in Ethology . Springer Science & Business Media, 1989, ISBN 978-0-306-42948-4 ( google.de [accessed December 16, 2019]).
^ ^A ^b Animal Behavior Society Newsletter. February 15, 1986, accessed December 16, 2019 .
↑ Joyce Harvey, Marilyn Ogilvie: The Biographical Dictionary of Women in Science: Pioneering Lives from Ancient Times to the Mid-Twentieth Century . Taylor & Francis, 2000, ISBN 978-0-203-80145-1 ( google.de [accessed December 16, 2019]).

personal data
SURNAME	Altmann, Margaret
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Altmann, Margarete
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German-American biologist
DATE OF BIRTH	October 6, 1900
PLACE OF BIRTH	Berlin
DATE OF DEATH	July 6, 1984
Place of death	Boulder (Colorado)

[:0-1] A ^b ^c ^d ^e Tiffany K. Wayne: American Women of Science Since 1900 . ABC-CLIO, 2011, ISBN 978-1-59884-158-9 ( google.de [accessed December 16, 2019]).

[:1-2] A ^b P. PG Bateson, Paul Patrick Gordon Bateson, PH Klopfer: Perspectives in Ethology . Springer Science & Business Media, 1989, ISBN 978-0-306-42948-4 ( google.de [accessed December 16, 2019]).

[:2-3] A ^b Animal Behavior Society Newsletter. February 15, 1986, accessed December 16, 2019 .

[4] Joyce Harvey, Marilyn Ogilvie: The Biographical Dictionary of Women in Science: Pioneering Lives from Ancient Times to the Mid-Twentieth Century . Taylor & Francis, 2000, ISBN 978-0-203-80145-1 ( google.de [accessed December 16, 2019]).