Reinhold Hensel

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Reinhold Friedrich Hensel (born September 1, 1826 in Adelnau near Brieg ; † November 6, 1881 in Opole ) was a German zoologist ( mammalogy ) and paleontologist .

Life

Hensel went to the St. Elisabeth high school in Breslau (Abitur 1846) and studied zoology there. He received his doctorate in 1852 in Breslau with the dissertation The leading principle of systematic zoology (published as The importance of the history of development for systematic zoology ), anticipating the theses of Ernst Haeckel on the parallelism of ontogenesis and phylogenesis. From 1850 to 1860 he was a teacher of natural science at secondary schools in Berlin. In addition, he continued to deal with zoology, in particular he carried out comparative studies on the skulls of native mammals (especially carnivores) and acquired a reputation as an excellent expert on the teeth and skeletons of mammals (including fossil mammals). Since he had been suffering from heart problems for a long time, he was drawn to nature and he accepted the offer of the Academy of Sciences in Berlin to go to southern Brazil as a zoologist for collecting activities, near the German colony in Porto Alegre ( Rio province) Grande do Sul ). He sent his collection of mammal skulls to the Natural History Museum in Berlin, and a planned trip further south to Paraguay, where he also wanted to visit the rich fossil mammal sites, did not materialize because of the Triple Alliance War . He published his findings in a series of essays until 1872 (treatises of the academy, zoological garden, Troschels archive for natural history, journal of the society for geography) In 1867 he became professor of zoology at the forest academy of Proskau . When the forest academy was dissolved in 1881, he retired, but died soon after of his heart disease after several strokes.

Honors

In 1853 he was elected a member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina .

Fonts

  • The importance of evolutionary history for systematic zoology. Nischkowsky, Breslau 1852.
  • Overview of fossil and living mammals in Silesia. Memoranda of the Silesian Society of Breslau 1853, pp. 239–250.
  • Contributions to the knowledge of fossil mammals, insectivores and rodents of the Diluvial Formation. In: Journal of the German Geological Society , Volume 7, 1855, 458–501, Volume 8, 1856, pp. 279–290, 660–702.
  • About Hipparion mediterraneum. In: Treatises. Royal Academy of Sciences Berlin 1860.
  • Contributions to the closer knowledge of the Brazilian province of São Pedro do Rio Grande do Sul . In: Journal of the Society for Geography in Berlin . 2nd volume. Reimer, Berlin 1867, pp. 227–269, 342–376, Plate III The German colonies in the jungle of the Brazilian province of Rio Grande do Sul ( Commons ).
  • Contributions to the knowledge of the mammals of southern Brazil. In: Berliner Akademische Abhandlungen , Berlin: Dümmler 1872, pp. 1–132.
  • Singing guinea pigs. In: The Zoological Garden , Volume 19, Frankfurt 1878, pp. 184-186.
  • About homologies and variants in the tooth formulas of some mammals. In: Gegenbaur's morphologisches Jahrbuch , Volume 5, 1879, pp. 529-561.

literature

  • Obituary in Leopoldina, No. 18, No. 3–4, February 1882, archive

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Member entry of Reinhold Friedrich Hensel at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on November 26, 2015.
personal data
SURNAME Hensel, Reinhold
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hensel, Reinhold Friedrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German zoologist and paleontologist
DATE OF BIRTH September 1, 1826
PLACE OF BIRTH Adelnau near Brieg
DATE OF DEATH November 6, 1881
Place of death Opole