Otto Fuhrmann

Otto Fuhrmann (born April 1, 1871 in Basel ; † January 27, 1945 ) was a Swiss parasitologist specializing in helminthology .

life and work

Fuhrmann was the son of an authorized signatory and studied at the University of Basel as a student of Ludwig Rütimeyer and Friedrich Zschokke . He then continued his training at the University of Geneva as an assistant to Carl Vogt . This encouraged Fuhrmann to concentrate his studies on parasitic flatworms.

Fuhrmann received his doctorate from the University of Basel with the dissertation The Turbellariums of the Basel area and then returned to the University of Geneva. There he became an assistant to Emile Yung (1854-1918). Yung was the successor to Vogts.

Fuhrmann was appointed to the University of Neuchâtel in 1895 , where he worked as a professor of zoology and comparative anatomy until 1941. Fuhrmann worked with Théodore Delachaux , who later became his successor in the Natural History Museum in Neuchâtel .

Fuhrmann is credited with introducing a new classification scheme for Cyclophyllidea (sequence of tapeworms), in which the sequence was divided into ten families with eight subfamilies - twenty of the 66 genera were new to science. In honor of Fuhrmann, Mario Giacinto Peracca named the back frog he discovered; herpetological species, Cryptobatrachusfuhrmanni (Fuhrmann's backpack frog ). Thanks to Fuhrmann, Jean Piaget came into contact with numerous specialists such as Yung and Maurice Bedot (1859–1927) around 1911 .

Fonts (selection)

• The cestodes of the birds , 1909
• Voyage d'exploration scientifique en Colombie , 1914
• Cestodes d'oiseaux de la Nouvelle-Calédonie et des Iles Loyalty , 1918
• Cestodes , 1926
• Brazilian cestodes from reptiles and birds , 1927
• Les ténias des oiseaux, avec 147 figures dans le texte , 1932

Web links

• Otto Fuhrmann (1871– 1945) In: WorldCat

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Raoul J. Mother: Yung, Emile. Historical encyclopedia of Switzerland, accessed on August 10, 2020 .