Martin S. Fischer

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Martin Stephan Fischer (born July 10, 1954 in Reutlingen ) is a German zoologist , evolutionary biologist and movement researcher . Fischer has been Professor of Special Zoology and Evolutionary Biology at the Friedrich Schiller University in Jena since 1993 .

Life

Fischer studied from 1975 to 1983 in Tübingen with Gerhard Mickoleit , Wolf-Ernst Reif and Dolf Seilacher and in Paris with Francoise Jouffroy and Pascal Tassy . The later meeting with Dietrich Starck was also formative . 1986 Fischer at the University of Tübingen Dr. rer. nat. PhD. His dissertation was entitled The position of hyraxes (Hyracoidea) in the phylogenetic system of Eutheria: at the same time a contribution to the history of adaptation. Procaviidae . At the Center for Morphology at the University of Frankfurt am Main he taught human anatomy for a year as an assistant. He then worked as a scientific assistant to Wolfgang Maier at the Zoological Institute in Tübingen. Immediately after completing his habilitation in 1993, he accepted a chair for special zoology and evolutionary biology at the Friedrich Schiller University in Jena, where he is still director of the institute of the same name and the phyletic museum .

Act

Martin S. Fischer is the founder of modern fluoroscopy or X-ray cinematography in Germany. His research and that of his working group encompass all major groups of terrestrial vertebrates, especially mammals and birds . The institute's largest, relevant archive ("Jena collection of X-ray movies") has collected over 60,000 X-ray films; around 20,000 films from the first 15 years of the work of his working group are stored in the Federal Archives . Since 2005 he has been working intensively on the locomotion of dogs and has profoundly changed the way dogs see their musculoskeletal system , especially in veterinary medicine . Since the late 1990s he has been involved in national and international projects in the development of walking machines . Fischer was involved in numerous national and international university, academy and specialist commissions ( Science Council , DFG , CNRS ) and was actively involved in building up his faculty, among other things as dean in the post-reunification period. In 2019 he participated in the documentary The Story of Horse and Man , which was first broadcast on German television on April 20, 2019. He is one of the main authors of the Jena Declaration of the German Zoological Society on Race Theory :

"Today we assume that there is actually no longer any biological basis for a concept of race. The concept of race is nothing more than a conceptual construct and lacks any reality, which is why we fundamentally reject the concept of race and therefore fight to ensure that this concept simply does not exist used more in connection with science. "

Together with his wife, the cultural scientist Barbara Happe , he has been organizing major art exhibitions for the university in the old tram depot in Jena every year since 2011 . Artists such as Frank Stella , Peter Halley and Rotraut were shown . The couple owns the Auerbach house in Jena, the first private Bauhaus built by Walter Gropius in 1924 .

Prizes and awards

In 1986, Fischer was awarded the German Society for Mammal Science for his doctorate. In 2018, the veterinary medicine department of the Justus Liebig University in Giessen awarded him an honorary doctorate.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Jena Declaration. Researchers make it clear: there are no human races. In: Deutschlandfunk. Stefan Raue, September 12, 2019, accessed on September 15, 2019 .