Matthias Glaubrecht

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Matthias Glaubrecht (born October 8, 1962 in Hamburg ) is a German zoologist , science journalist , book author and director of the Center for Natural History in Hamburg.

Matthias Glaubrecht, 2020, on the Potomac River in Washington DC

Live and act

Glaubrecht studied biology at the University of Hamburg , where he obtained his diploma in 1990 and his doctorate in 1994. From 1994 to 1995 he worked as a postdoc at the University of Hamburg. From 1996 to 1997 Glaubrecht was a guest at the Australian Museum in Sydney . From 1997 to 2014 he worked at the Natural History Museum in Berlin , where he was the curator of the mollusc collection. Between 2006 and 2009 Glaubrecht was head of the museum's research department and a member of the museum's management. In 2011 he completed his habilitation at the Humboldt University in Berlin. In 2014 Matthias Glaubrecht was appointed director of the Center for Natural History in Hamburg. He researches evolutionary systematics , historical biogeography , morphology and the history of science in biology .

Glaubrecht works as a science journalist for newspapers and magazines such as Die Zeit , Tagesspiegel , the Frankfurter Rundschau and the Naturwissenschaftliche Rundschau .

Glaubrecht warns: “Above all else we are likely to lose ourselves, a large part of humanity. It will be the end of evolution with animals and plants and the living world as we know it. ”In his work The End of Evolution he deals extensively with the decline in species since the extinction of the dinosaurs. With the destruction of the livelihood of many large mammals and the global death of birds and insects, the existence of humans is also endangered.

Prizes and awards

Memberships

Publications (selection)

  • The end of evolution. Man and the Destruction of Species , Bertelsmann, Munich 2019, ISBN 978-3-570-10241-1
  • Adventure on the Amazon and the Rio Negro. Alfred Russel Wallace . Galiani, Berlin 2014, ISBN 978-3-86971-085-3 .
  • At the end of the archipelago. Alfred Russel Wallace , Verlag Galiani, Berlin 2013, ISBN 978-3-86971-070-9 .
  • with Harald Schneider (Ed.): Evolution in action: case studies in adaptive radiation, speciation and the origin of biodiversity. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg 2010, ISBN 978-3-642-12424-2 .
  • It's like confessing to murder. A day in the life of Charles Darwin. A biographical portrait. Herder, Freiburg, Basel, Vienna 2009, ISBN 978-3-451-29874-5 .
  • Affair of evolution. Machos and other mysteries of biology. Hirzel, Stuttgart 2005, ISBN 3-7776-1378-9 .
  • The whole world is an island. Observations by an evolutionary biologist. Hirzel, Stuttgart, Leipzig 2002, ISBN 3-7776-1116-6 .
  • The long breath of creation. Rasch and Röhring, Hamburg 1995, ISBN 3-89136-547-0 .
Essay afterword

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ New Natural History Museum in Hamburg
  2. ↑ New Natural History Museum in Hamburg
  3. ↑ Page about the right to believe in "Perlentaucher"
  4. ↑ Overview page with 25 articles by Glaubrecht in ZEIT
  5. ↑ Search results according to the right of belief in a database of the chair for evolutionary biology at the University of Konstanz, via Google
  6. ↑ https://www.deutschlandfunkkultur.de/evolutionsbiologe-ueber-die-zukunft-der-erde-das-ende-der.1008.de.html?dram:article_id=464786
  7. ↑ SWR1 BW, SWR1 BW: SWR1 people by date. Retrieved May 15, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Faith right, Matthias
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German biologist and author
DATE OF BIRTH October 8, 1962
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg