Maximilian Renner (zoologist)

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Maximilian Renner (born November 4, 1919 in Munich ; † March 20, 1990 ibid) was a German zoologist, he mainly dealt with the sensory physiology of honey bees and taught at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich .

Prof. Maximilian Renner

Life

Max Renner was born in Munich and studied here. He became an assistant to the later Nobel Prize winner Karl von Frisch and continued his research on the sensory physiology of honey bees. He completed his habilitation in 1960 and was initially an adjunct professor in 1967, then until his retirement professor and head of his own working group at the Zoological Institute of the LMU.

Renner was married and had two daughters. He died on March 20, 1990 in Munich.

Act

Renner succeeded for the first time in keeping honey bees in closed rooms for research purposes. This enabled him to prove the bees' time memory with the famous transatlantic relocation attempt. He trained bees in a closed room in Paris so that they flew to collect at a certain time (8:15) every day. He transported the bee colony by plane to an identical room in New York , where they searched for food at exactly the same time (8:15 am Paris time).

Renner examined, partly with his students, among many other topics in particular glands in bees and their function.

Renner's adaptations of the widespread zoological textbooks, “Kükenthal's guidelines for the zoological internship” and the “Pocket Lexicon Biology and Ecology of Insects” , which Renner published and updated over and over again, were of particular importance .

Renner was a very dedicated and popular university professor who shaped generations of biology students with his courses, lectures and excursions.

literature

  • Guide to the zoological internship. Founded by Willy Kükenthal , 1898; currently managed by Volker Storch and Ulrich Welsch , G. Fischer Verlag, now Spektrum Akademischer Verlag, Heidelberg.
  • W. Jakobs & M. Renner: Pocket dictionary on the biology and ecology of insects. G. Fischer Verlag, continued by Heiko Bellmann and Klaus Honomichl
  • M. Renner 1961: Sense of time and astronomical orientation of the honeybee. Naturwissenschaftliche Rundschau 14, 296–305

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Press release LMU P13 / 90 ; Münchner Merkur, November 3, 1989; SZ, 4th / 5th November 1989
  2. ↑ M. Renner, 1955: On keeping bees in closed, artificially lighted rooms; The Sciences, 42, 539-540
  3. ^ M. Renner, 1955: A transocean experiment on the honeybee's sense of time ; Die Naturwissenschaften , 42, 540-541; Do bees get jet lag? In: NZZ Folio
  4. ↑ M. Renner, 1955: New studies on the physiological effects of the honeybees odor organ; The Natural Sciences, 42, 589; M. Renner and G. Vierling, 1977: The role of the pocket gland pheromone in the wedding flight of the queen bee, Behav. Ecol. Sociobiol. 2,329-338
personal data
SURNAME Renner, Maximilian
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Renner, Max; Kükenthal-Renner, Maximilian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German zoologist
DATE OF BIRTH November 4, 1919
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich
DATE OF DEATH March 20, 1990
Place of death Munich