Max Sellnick
Max Sellnick (born March 20, 1884 in Rauschen ; † August 30, 1971 in Schmalenbeck ) was a German mite researcher .
Life
Sellnick studied natural sciences at the University of Königsberg and doctorate to Dr. phil. In the First World War he was awarded the Iron Cross 1st class as a pioneer officer .
Since 1919 he was a teacher at the grammar school in Lötzen and since 1928 at the merged city grammar school Altstadt-Kneiphof in Königsberg.
Scientifically, he devoted himself particularly to mite research. He owned a collection of 9,000 specimens, 500 bottles with unprepared mites and 1,200 works on mites . Everything was destroyed by fire. Sellnick has also made an outstanding contribution to research into fossil mites. He has described more than 70 species from Eocene Baltic amber .
From 1948 to 1954 Sellnick could devote himself to his research in Stockholm .
Works (selection)
- The gentleman nephew from Poland , Allenstein 1920.
- The mite fauna of Iceland , Gothenburg 1940.
- Two new species of mites from coastal groundwater from Simrishamn on the south east coast of Skåne province in Sweden , Lund 1957.
- Mites in Baltic amber. In: Bernsteinforschung 2, Berlin / Leipzig 1931.
- The oribatids of the amber collection of the University of Königsberg. In: Writings of the Physical-Economic Society zu Königsberg i.Pr. 59, Koenigsberg 1918.
literature
- Herbert Weidner: The acarologist Dr. Max Sellnick on his 80th birthday . In: Entomological messages from the Zoological State Institute and Zoological Museum , Hamburg. No. 48 = vol. 3.
- Robert Albinus: Königsberg Lexicon . Würzburg 2002, ISBN 3-88189-441-1
Web links
- Literature by and about Max Sellnick in the catalog of the German National Library
- Personnel card and personnel sheet of Max Sellnick in the personnel file of the BIL reviewer in the archive database of the Library for Educational History Research (BBF)
- US National Library of Medicine, PMID 4563703
- Obituary of the University of Hamburg
Individual evidence
- ^ The Ostpreußenblatt dated September 11, 1971, p. 18.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Sellnick, Max |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German mite researcher |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 20, 1884 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Rauschen , East Prussia |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 30, 1971 |
| Place of death | Schmalenbeck , Holstein |