Oskar Haempel

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Oskar Haempel (born May 12, 1882 in Malec , Galicia , † January 2, 1953 in Vienna ) was an Austrian hydrobiologist.

Haempel worked as a fishery biologist at the Agricultural Chemical Research Institute in Vienna from 1908. From 1910 he was a lecturer in agriculture at the Vienna University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences and from 1920 headed the newly established chair for hydrobiology and fisheries economics. In 1928 Haempel was appointed head of the Federal Institute for Fisheries Biology in Weißenbach am Attersee and in 1934 he ended his teaching activities in Vienna.

In addition to extensive research on the biology of the alpine lakes, Haempel was primarily recognized by the “ Glaser-Haempelscher Fischtest ” pregnancy test developed in 1941 together with the biochemist Erhard Glaser .

Haempel's students included u. a. the biologist Kurt Friedrich Reinsch , who assisted him in investigating the alpine lakes.

Publications (selection)

  • Guide to the Biology of Fishes , 1912
  • The animal and plant life of our alpine lakes , 1915
  • Haempel / Doljan: Handbook of modern fisheries economics , 1921
  • Fishery biology of the alpine lakes , 1930
  • Glaser / Haempel: The browning effect of corynanthin measured in the fish test , 1937
  • Glaser / Haempel: About hormone findings in a virilizing ovarian tumor , 1937
  • Glaser / Haempel: The prediction of the sex of the human child in the womb, Archive for Development Mechanics of Organisms , Berlin, 1942

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SURNAME Haempel, Oskar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian hydrobiologist
DATE OF BIRTH May 12, 1882
PLACE OF BIRTH Malec , Galicia
DATE OF DEATH 2nd January 1953
Place of death Vienna