Otto Maas (zoologist)

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Otto Philipp Maas (born July 30, 1867 in Mannheim , † March 17, 1916 in Munich ) was a German zoologist and university professor of developmental history.

Life

Otto Maas studied at the universities of Munich, Strasbourg and Berlin zoology and medicine and was constructed in 1890 with a thesis on the development of freshwater sponge Dr. phil. PhD . In 1894 he completed his habilitation at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich for zoology and comparative anatomy. In 1902 he received the title and rank of associate professor in Munich and in 1908 a paid personal teaching position for comparative and experimental development history and a teaching position for general zoology at the Royal Bavarian Academy for Agriculture and Brewery in Weihenstephan . In addition to the general and experimental development history, Otto Maas mainly dealt with the research of cnidarians and is the first to describe the umbrella jellyfish Nausithoe albatrossi ( Maas , 1897) and the Hydrozoe Euphysora, which he named in honor of the American zoologist Henry Bryant Bigelow bigelowi Maas , 1905, from the family Corymorphidae .

Otto Maas was born on March 8, 1906 with matriculation no. In 3208 elected member of the Imperial Leopoldino-Carolinian German Academy of Natural Scientists in the Zoology and Anatomy Section .

He had been married to his wife Helene, née Münzing, since 1903.

Fonts (selection)

  • About the development of the freshwater sponge . In: Journal for Scientific Zoology, 50, 1890, pp. 527–554, plates XXII – XXIII ( digitized version )
  • The medusas . Memoirs of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College, Volume XXIII, 1, XXI, Printed for the Museum, Cambridge 1897 ( digitized version )
  • About Medusas from the Solenhof slate and the Lower Chalk of the Carpathians. In: Palaeontographica. Contributions to the natural history of the pre-world, 48, sixth delivery from April 1902, Stuttgart 1901–1902, pp. 297–322, panel XXII – XXIII ( digitized version )
  • Introduction to the experimental history of development (development mechanics) . JF Bergmann, Wiesbaden 1903 ( digitized version )
  • The Scyphomeduses of the Siboga expedition . Bookstore and printer formerly EJ Brill, Leiden 1903 ( digitized version )
  • Méduses provenant des campagnes des yachts Hirondelle et Princesse-Alice (1886–1903) . Résultats des campagnes scientifiques accomplies sur son yacht par Albert 1er, prince souverain de Monaco, Fascicule XXVIII, Monaco 1904 ( digitized version )
  • The craspedote medusas of the Siboga expedition . Bookstore and printer formerly EJ Brill, Leiden 1905 ( digitized )
  • Living conditions and distribution of animals . Teubner, Leipzig 1907 ( digitized version )
  • Japanese medusas . In: Franz Theodor Doflein (Ed.): Contributions to the natural history of East Asia. Treatises of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences, mathematical and physical class, Supplement Volume 1, pp. 1–53, plates 1–3, Munich 1909 ( digitized version )
  • with Otto Renner : Introduction to Biology . Oldenbourg, Munich and Berlin 1912 ( digitized )

literature

  • Cristina Herbst (Ed.): Hedwig Pringsheim . Diaries. Volume 2, 1892–1897 Wallstein Verlag, Göttingen 2013, pp. 706–707
  • Wilhelm Roux : Nekrolog. Professor Otto Maas . In: Archive for Development Mechanics of Organisms, 42, 1916, pp. 508-512

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personal data
SURNAME Maas, Otto
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Maas, Otto Philipp (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German zoologist
DATE OF BIRTH July 30, 1867
PLACE OF BIRTH Mannheim
DATE OF DEATH March 17, 1916
Place of death Munich