Paul Buchner (biologist)

Paul Ernst Christof Buchner (born April 12, 1886 in Nuremberg , † October 19, 1978 in Ischia ) was a German zoologist and cell biologist . From 1919 to 1923 he was Associate Professor of Zoology at the University of Munich and from 1924 to 1926 as a Full Professor at the University of Greifswald , from 1926 to 1934 at the University of Breslau and from 1934 to 1944 at the University of Leipzig . From 1944 he worked as a private scholar on the Italian island of Ischia. The focus of his research was the endosymbiosis between different living things. The Leopoldina and the Saxon and Bavarian Academy of Sciences made him a member, and he was also awarded the Federal Cross of Merit.

Life

Paul Buchner was born in Nuremberg in 1886 and studied botany and zoology at the universities of Würzburg and Munich from 1905 . During his studies he became a member of the Academic Choral Society Würzburg in the Sondershäuser Association . He received his doctorate under Richard Goldschmidt in 1909 at the Zoological Institute in Munich headed by Richard von Hertwig and completed his habilitation three years later in Munich. From 1912 to 1919 he worked as a private lecturer and then until 1923 as an associate professor of zoology at the University of Munich.

In 1923 he received a call to the University of Greifswald, where he worked as a full professor of zoology until 1926 (his successor there was Ernst Matthes in 1927 ). He then took over from 1926 to 1934 a professorship at the University of Breslau and the management of the local zoological institute. From 1934 to 1944 he was the successor to Johannes Meisenheimer as professor of zoology at the University of Leipzig . In 1934 Buchner was President of the German Zoological Society .

In 1944 he did not return to Germany from his annual vacation on the Italian island of Ischia , because he feared that his research would be taken over by the National Socialist regime. On Ischia he worked as a private scholar and devoted himself to geological , zoological, prehistoric and art history studies. After the end of the Second World War , he turned down an offer at the University of Munich in 1946. In 1954 he and his wife went on a research trip to Bogor , Java and Bali, supported by the German Research Foundation . He died in Ischia in 1978.

Paul Buchner was married to the Italian artist Massimiliana Coppa and was the father of the archaeologist Giorgio Buchner .

Scientific work

Paul Buchner's main area of ​​work was various marine organisms, particularly arrow worms . During his time in Munich, he mainly devoted himself to cell biological studies. Through his later work, in which he examined in particular the endosymbiosis relationships between animals and fungal microorganisms , he founded modern symbiosis research .

Awards

Paul Buchner was a full member of the Saxon Academy of Sciences from 1935 and a corresponding member from 1943 , and from 1936 he was also a member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina . In 1952 he was accepted as a corresponding member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences . The German Zoological Society made him an honorary member. He also received honorary doctorates from several universities, the Carus Medal of the Leopoldina and the Great Cross of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany.

Publications (selection)

• Animal and plant in intracellular symbiosis. Berlin 1921
• General zoology. Leipzig 1938
• Symbiosis of animals with plant microorganisms. Berlin 1939 (second edition 1949)
• Endosymbiosis of animals with plant microorganisms. Basel and Stuttgart 1953
• Animals breeding microbes. Berlin 1960
• Guest on Ischia. From letters and memoirs of 500 years. Munich 1968

literature

• For Paul Buchner's 70th birthday. In: Journal for Morphology and Ecology of Animals. 44 (6) / 1956. Springer, pp. II / III, ISSN  0720-213X
• Hansjochem Autrum : Paul Buchner. Obituary in: Yearbook 1979 of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences. Publishing house of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences at CH Beck, Munich 1979, pp. 282–284

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Otto Grübel, Special Houses Association of German Student Choral Societies (SV): Cartel address book. As of March 1, 1914. Munich 1914, p. 40.
2. ^ Obituary for Giorgio Buchner by David Ridgeway in the Independent of April 8, 2005.

Web links

• Literature by and about Paul Buchner in the catalog of the German National Library
• Paul Buchner (biologist) in the professorial catalog of the University of Leipzig
• Paul Buchner, professors at the University of Leipzig 1945–1993 , accessed on November 19, 2017