Otto Kraus (zoologist)

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Otto Kraus (born May 17, 1930 in Frankfurt am Main ; † October 24, 2017 in Hamburg ) was a German zoologist . His main research interests were comparative and functional morphology, systematics, animal geography and evolutionary biology.

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From 1950 to 1955 Kraus studied the subjects zoology, botany, geology / paleontology and geography at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main . Doctorate in 1955 with a dissertation on Central American Myriapods and Araneen. 1950 assistant, from 1960 curator of the department for invertebrates at the Naturmuseum and Research Institute Senckenberg, Frankfurt am Main. 1965 Habilitation for the subject zoology with a thesis on diplopods / biogeography. In 1968, Kraus was appointed to a chair for zoology in connection with the position of director of the Zoological State Institute and Zoological Museum at the University of Hamburg as the successor to Curt Kosswig (started in 1969, emeritus from 1995).

In 1963 Kraus became a member, 1989 to 1995 President of the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature (London); In this function, development of a new set of rules for the scientific naming of animals.

From 1965 to 1968 Kraus was the first president of the Center International de Documentation Arachnologique (CIDA) - now the International Society of Arachnology .

1970 Kraus became a corresponding member of the Senckenberg Natural Research Society .

In 1971 Kraus was elected a full member of the Joachim Jungius Society of Sciences in Hamburg. From 1978 to 1982, from 1996 to 1997 and from 1998 to 1999 he was president of this academy.

From 1979 to 1995 Kraus was a liaison professor at the German National Academic Foundation .

In 2006 he became a member of the Academy of Charitable Sciences in Erfurt .

Otto Kraus was an honorary member of the following scientific societies: Natural Science Association in Hamburg , British Arachnological Society , International Society of Arachnology (Washington), International Society for Myriapodology (Paris), Societas pro Fauna et Flora Fennica (Helsingfors).

Works (selection)

  • 1960: About "Holckaidari hamuligera" Verhoeff nom. nud., a new species of the genus Japonaria (Diplopoda, Leptodesmidae) . Opuscula Zoologica, 49, pp. 1-3 online
  • 1962: International rules for zoological nomenclature . Senckenberg Natural Research Society. Frankfurt am Main
  • 1970–1971: Contribution to volume 1 ( lower animals ) and volume 3 (molluscs / echinoderms) of the Encyclopedia Grzimeks Tierleben
  • 1975: Basics of zoological systematics: Theoretical and practical requirements for work in the systematic field (with Ernst Mayr ). Parey-Verlag, Hamburg. ISBN 9783490039187
  • 1976: Zoological systematics in Central Europe . Parey-Verlag, Hamburg. ISBN 978-3490124968
  • 1978: Co-Evolution (with Helmut Zwölfer). Parey-Verlag, Hamburg. ISBN 9783490126962
  • 1980: Arthropod Phylogeny (with Jan Bergström). Parey-Verlag, Hamburg. ISBN 9783490132963
  • 1983: Middle Elbe and Drawehn: Habitats, Flora and Fauna in the Hannoversche Wendland (Luchow-Dannenberg district) ISBN 9783490140968
  • From 1977 to 1980 editor of the journal Zoomorphology .

literature

  • Nature and museum. Notes : Issue 99–100. Senckenberg Natural Research Society, 1969
  • Kürschner's German Scholars Calendar 1996. Bio-Bibliographical Directory of German-speaking Scientists of the Present . de Gruyter, 1996. ISBN 978-3110149159
  • Peter Jäger, Petra Sierwald, Rüdiger Bieler, Peter Decker: Otto Kraus 1930–2017 (obituary) . Arachnologische Mitteilungen 55, 2018, pp. Iii – viii.

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personal data
SURNAME Kraus, Otto
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German zoologist
DATE OF BIRTH May 17, 1930
PLACE OF BIRTH Frankfurt am Main
DATE OF DEATH October 24, 2017
Place of death Hamburg