Max Rauther

Theodor Eugen Max Rauther (born September 22, 1879 in Königsberg , † May 27, 1951 in Stuttgart ) was a German zoologist .

Life

After attending the secondary schools in Königsberg and Charlottenburg, Max Rauther studied natural sciences at the University of Berlin from the 1998/1999 winter semester. In the summer semester of 1900 he switched to the University of Jena for 5 semesters as a student of Ernst Haeckel and Heinrich Ernst Ziegler . In November 1902 he was charged with a thesis on the genital apparatus of some rodents and insectivores doctorate . He then trained as an assistant at the zoological institutes in Tübingen from October 1902 to March 1904 with Friedrich Blochmann and in Gießen from October 1905 to March 1908. In February 1906 Rauther received his habilitation under Johann Wilhelm Spengel .

Rauther then worked as a private lecturer in zoology in Jena and assistant at the zoological station in Naples . From 1914 to 1918 he did military service as a participant in the war. On April 19, 1919 he was appointed curator at the Württemberg Natural History Collection in Stuttgart . Max Rauther worked in the following period from April 1, 1925 to June 17, 1946 as its director and from the summer semester 1925 as the successor to Heinrich Ernst Ziegler as professor of zoology at the TH Stuttgart .

Max Rauther was a member and from 1937 to 1939 on the board of the German Zoological Society .

Fonts

• About the genital apparatus of some rodents and insectivors, especially their accessory genital jets. In: Jenaische Zeitschrift für Naturwissenschaft, 38, 2, Jena 1903, S. 377–472 Digitized
• Contributions to the knowledge of Mermis albicans v. Sieve. with special consideration of the skin-nerve-muscle system. Studies on the organization of the nematodes I. In: Zoological yearbooks, department for anatomy and ontogeny of animals, 23, 1, Jena 1906, pp. 1-76 digitized
• About the concept of kinship. Critical and historical considerations. In: Zoological Yearbooks, Supplement 15, 3, Jena 1912, pp. 69-134 digitized

literature

• Karl Dietrich Adam : The Württemberg natural history collection to Stuttgart in the Second World War . In: From the history of the Stuttgart Natural History Museum. Stuttgart Contributions to Natural History, Series C, No. 30, 1991, pp. 81–97 and note 139 on p. 104 (short biography)