Oliver Paget

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Oliver Paget (born April 24, 1922 in Vienna ; † March 23, 2011 ) was an Austrian zoologist and paleontologist .

Live and act

On his father's side, Oliver E. Paget came from an English family. He completed a secondary school in Vienna and then studied zoology, genetics and anthropology at the university , but had to interrupt this in 1942 because his English citizenship was contested. Georg Gottschewski , however, offered him a position as a research assistant at the Racial Biology Institute. This was closed in 1945, but Paget returned to the institute after the invasion of the Red Army , took out the flies and mice that had served as experimental animals there and transported them with a cart to his private apartment, where he kept them alive. until he was able to take them with him to other research institutions, first to the zoological institute of the University of Vienna, later to the institute for general biology. Paget, who had started his dissertation on radiation and drosophilagenetics under Gottschewski, also completed this work after the war and initially devoted himself to genetic research, but then had to reorientate himself, since genetics was a science that was not available in Austria at the time Lack of money was not carried forward.

From 1955 Paget worked at the Vienna Natural History Museum as head of the mollusc collection. In 1972 he became director of the 3rd zoological department there (for invertebrates). In 1976 he was awarded the title of real councilor .

In 1979 Paget was appointed first director of the museum and held that position until 1987. The so-called Children's Hall , which became a model for numerous other museums, was opened under his leadership . His aim was to bring the museum's content closer to the broadest possible audience. Under his leadership, the open day was introduced in the Natural History Museum and numerous special exhibitions were brought to life.

Oliver E. Paget has received several important national and international orders and awards. Due to his research in the field of molluscs and other areas, some animal species now bear his name (mollusks, crustaceans and an ant species). Paget discovered the mussels, which are found nowhere else in the world, in Bad Vöslau and ran the Hansybach conservation project .

Paget was the great-nephew of the suffragette Rosa Mayreder .

Fonts

  • Snails of our Alps , 1959
  • The mollusc shapes of the island of Rhodes , 1976
  • Nature and Architecture , 1983

literature

  • F. Starmühlner: Real Hofrat director Dr. O. Paget, 65 years. 1988.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Article in the standard .
  2. ↑ Short biography of Dr. Oliver Paget ( Memento of the original from September 8, 2001 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved March 20, 2009. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / members.chello.at
  3. ^ Councilor Dr. Oliver Paget (RM's great-nephew) tells about the life of Rosa Mayreder's lecture in the Amtshaus Wieden, accessed on March 20, 2009.

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personal data
SURNAME Paget, Oliver
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian zoologist, paleontologist and museum director
DATE OF BIRTH April 24, 1922
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH March 23, 2011