Paul Mayer (zoologist)

Paul Mayer (born July 20, 1848 in Lüdenscheid , † May 28, 1923 in Jena ) was a German zoologist and microscopist.

His father Isidor Mayer was the principal of a proreal high school . Mayer attended grammar school in Soest , but left it before graduating to become a pharmacist. He was a pharmacist's assistant for several years, studied three semesters at the University of Greifswald from 1871 to prepare for the pharmaceutical state examination, but then remained as an assistant at the Botanical Institute and curator of the Botanical Museum. He made up his Abitur and began studying zoology in Jena in the winter semester of 1874/75 . In 1874 he received his doctorate from Ernst Haeckel with a dissertation on the anatomy of the fire bug . In 1875/76 he was on a scholarship at the Zoological Station in Naples with Anton Dohrn . Afterwards he was a custodian at the Zoological Museum in Berlin for a short time before he went back to Naples as Dohrn's assistant.

In Naples he developed new microscopic techniques for zoologists and published books about them that became standard works of his time. He introduced the staining agent hemalum as well as a new type of microtome and improved the dissecting microscope (binocular dissecting stand according to P. Mayer, which was built at Carl Zeiss ). He also published on marine crabs, among other things.

From 1878 until they were discontinued in 1913, he was the editor of the annual zoological reports founded by Dohrn .

He was an honorary member of the German Zoological Society .

literature

• Gerhard H. Müller:  Mayer, Paul. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 16, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1990, ISBN 3-428-00197-4 , pp. 552 f. ( Digitized version ).

Fonts

• On ontogeny and phylogeny of insects: an academic price publication , Jena 1875
• with Arthur Bolles Lee : Basics of microscopic technology for zoologists and anatomists , Berlin: Friedländer 1898, 4th edition 1910, Archives, 2nd edition
• The Caprellids , fauna and flora of the Gulf of Naples and the adjacent sea sections , Volume 6, Leipzig: W. Engelmann 1882 Archive
• Introduction to microscopy , Springer 1914, 2nd edition 1922
• Zoomikrotechnik. A guide for zoologists and anatomists , Borntraeger 1920
• The sound apparatus of the Cikaden , Zs. F. wiss. Zoologie, Volume 28, 1877, pp. 79-92
• On the history of the development of the Decapods , Jenaische Zs. F. Med. U. Naturwiss., Volume 11, 1877, pp. 188-269
• Amphipod crabs of the family Caprellidae , 1882, addendum 1890
• Is the staining of the cell nuclei based on a chemical process or not? , Anatomischer Anzeiger, Volume 13, 1897, pp. 313-322