Richard Greeff (medic, 1829)

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Richard Greeff (born March 14, 1829 in Elberfeld , † August 30, 1892 in Marburg ) was a German physician, zoologist and university professor.

Life

As the son of a factory owner, Greeff began to study medicine at the Julius Maximilians University of Würzburg . In 1854 he was in the Corps Nassovia Würzburg recipiert . When he was inactive , he moved to the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg and the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität zu Berlin . 1857 Dr. med. doctorate , he was an assistant doctor at the Gdansk City Hospital for two years . In 1859 he established himself as a general practitioner in his hometown of Elberfeld . Already interested in zoology while studying medicine, he gave up the medical profession. In 1863 he completed his habilitation at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn for zoology . In 1871 he followed the call of the Philipps University of Marburg to its chair for zoology and comparative anatomy. Under the influence of Max Schultze , he devoted himself particularly to the unicellular organisms and root pods . "Many of G's works clarified controversial questions and or provided valuable bases for further investigations." In 1874 he was at the Naples Zoological Station . For the academic year 1888/89 he was elected rector of the Philipps University. His son Richard Greeff was a full professor at the Charité.

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literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ see Hessisches Staatsarchiv Marburg (HStAMR), Best. 915 No. 5673, p. 371 ( digitized version ).
  2. ↑ Kösener corps lists 1910, 208/46
  3. ^ Georg Uschmann:  Greeff, Richard. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 7, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1966, ISBN 3-428-00188-5 , p. 17 f. ( Digitized version ).
  4. ↑ Rector's speeches (HKM)
personal data
SURNAME Greeff, Richard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German physician, zoologist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH March 14, 1829
PLACE OF BIRTH Elberfeld
DATE OF DEATH August 30, 1892
Place of death Marburg on the Lahn