Max Auerbach (zoologist)
Max Auerbach (born January 26, 1879 in Elberfeld , † November 21, 1968 in Karlsruhe ) was a German biologist , zoologist , natural scientist and limnologist . He was director of the Baden State Collections for Natural History in Karlsruhe .
Life
After attending school in Elberfeld and Mannheim, he went to high school in Basel in Switzerland in 1894 . After graduating from high school, Max Auerbach studied medicine and zoology at the University of Basel from 1897 to 1902 . There he received his doctorate in zoology in 1902. In the same year he went back to the German Empire, where he became an assistant to the Grand Ducal Natural History Cabinet in Karlsruhe. Two years later he was appointed curator there and completed his habilitation at the Technical University of Karlsruhe . In 1913 he became head of the zoological-botanical department of the natural history cabinet and, after the natural history cabinet was renamed "Badische Landessammlungen für Naturkunde", in 1918 director of the zoological-botanical department. In the following year he was instrumental in founding the Institute for Lake Constance Research in the city of Constance, which was later named after him. From 1934 to 1945 Max Auerbach was director of the Baden State Collections for Natural History and, from 1932, he was also chairman of the Natural Science Association in Karlsruhe. In 1942 he had to experience the destruction of a large part of the collections by a bomb attack during World War II.
In addition, Max Auerbach became associate professor for zoology at the Technical University of Karlsruhe in 1910 and worked there as such until 1934. In 1926 he also became a lecturer for anatomy at the Karlsruhe University of Fine Arts .
Honors
- 1959 Federal Cross of Merit
- Today there is the Max Auerbach lecture hall in the Natural History Museum in Karlsruhe.
literature
- Herrmann AL Degener : Degeners Who is it? Berlin 1935, p. 42.
- Karl Frentzen: Max Auerbach. A picture of life. (= Contributions to natural history research in Southwest Germany, 10), 1951.
Web links
- Literature by and about Max Auerbach in the catalog of the German National Library
- Biography at leo-bw.de
- Biography in the official journal of the city of Karlsruhe
Individual evidence
- ^ Karlsruhe Natural Science Association - annual program , accessed on April 15, 2019.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Auerbach, Max |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Auer, Eugen Leopold |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German biologist, natural scientist and limnologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 26, 1879 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Elberfeld |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 21, 1968 |
| Place of death | Karlsruhe |