Paul Deegener

Johannes Paul Benjamin Deegener (born January 15, 1875 in Strausberg , † July 7, 1949 in Berlin ) was a German zoologist and entomologist .

origin

His parents were the pastor Johannes Adolf Karl Paul Deegener (* July 2, 1839 Uckermark ; † December 5, 1898 Saal) and his wife Hulda von Bequignolles (* July 12, 1840 Königsberg ; † December 22, 1925 Berlin ).

Paul Deegener had three children: Irmela, Ingeborg and Ulrich Deegener.

Life

After attending the humanistic grammar school , he studied at the University of Berlin and received his doctorate in 1900 with the dissertation Development of the tools from Hydrophilus . 1901-1918 he worked as an assistant at the Zoological Institute of the University of Berlin. After his habilitation on March 5, 1904, he worked as a lecturer in entomology from 1918 and was appointed associate professor of zoology at the University of Berlin in 1922 (relinquished on March 4, 1941). At the same time he taught as deputy chairman at the adult education center in Großberlin . He was also a scientific adviser to the zoological student council, a member of the German Zoological Society and the Entomological Society in Halle , founded in 1908 , as well as a member of the Combat League for German Culture (KfdK) founded in 1928 . For specialist books and magazines he wrote numerous articles on developmental history, entomological, animal sociological and general biological content.

He found his final resting place in the south-west cemetery in Stahnsdorf .

Works

• The development of the intestinal canal of insects during metamorphosis , 2 parts, Jena 1904–1910
• The metamorphosis of insects , Leipzig 1909
• Nature and meaning of metamorphosis in insects: a generally understandable introduction to the world of insects , Leipzig 1910
• Way of life and organization. An introduction to the biology of invertebrates , Leipzig 1912
• Respiratory organs . In: Christoph Schröder: Handbuch der Entomologie, Vol. 1. Chap. 5, Jena 1912, pp. 321-528.
• The forms of socialization in the animal kingdom. A systematic-sociological experiment , Leipzig 1918
• Cocoon societies and society cocoons , Berlin 1919
• Walter Guttmann: Zoology for the Physikum , 14th edition Berlin 1920 (revision)
• A year of learning in nature. Suggestions for biological walks for hikers and nature lovers, 2 parts, Jena 1922
• The biological teaching excursion - a manual for students and teachers of all types of school , Jena 1922 (with Walther Schoenichen)
• Manual for the microscopic-zoological internship of invertebrates , Berlin-Leipzig 1923
• Habits of insects , Leipzig 1925
• Christoph Schröder: Handbook of Entomology , 3 vol., Jena 1925–1929. (Co-editor)
• The day is mine Hikes with a nature lover , Jena 1927
• Overheard life: Small creature in water, bush and stalk . 164 photograph. Nature observations from the life of the lower animal world, Berlin 1933 (with Karl Otto Bartels)

literature

• Who is it Our contemporaries. 10.A. 1935, p. 345.
• Johannes Asen: Complete directory of the teaching staff at the University of Berlin 1810–1945, Leipzig 1955, p. 34.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Wappensammler, 1905, p.8 family tree