Richard Hesse
Richard Hesse (born February 20, 1868 in Nordhausen am Harz , † December 28, 1944 in Berlin ) was a German zoologist .
Life and work
Hesse studied natural sciences in Tübingen and Berlin , where he later also taught. In the tradition of Karl August Möbius, he dealt with ecological and zoogeographical problems of the animal world. He received " on May 1, 1892 the position of assistant at the zoological institute of the University of Tübingen ", completed his habilitation there in 1896 and received in 1901 " the title of extraordinary professor and in the winter of 1902/3 a teaching position for the zoological part of forest protection. “In April 1909 he was appointed“ the regular professor at the agricultural college in Berlin ”. In 1914 he was professor in Bonn , in 1926 he returned to Berlin and was accepted as a full member of the Prussian Academy of Sciences . In 1927 he was President of the German Zoological Society . In 1933, Hesse was elected a member of the Leopoldina .
In his main work "Tierbau und Tierleben" (1910), which he published together with Franz Theodor Doflein , he placed animal groups according to their habitat, that is, their ecology, at the center of the scientific presentation for the first time.
For the first time, Hesse established a relationship between the anatomical size of animals and the climate of their habitat. He examined male house sparrows in Leningrad, Northern Germany and Tübingen and determined the relative weight of their hearts. He found that the relative heart weight in animals of the same species is greater in colder climates. The study published by him in 1921 led to the formulation of the Hessian rule as a basic context in animal ecology .
literature
- Hansjochem Autrum: Hesse, Richard. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 9, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1972, ISBN 3-428-00190-7 , p. 15 ( digitized version ).
- Stadtarchiv Nordhausen, Hans-Jürgen Grönke (Ed.): Nordhausen personalities from eleven centuries . Geiger, Horb am Neckar 2009, ISBN 978-3-86595-336-0 .
Web links
- Literature by and about Richard Hesse in the catalog of the German National Library
Individual evidence
- ↑ GStA PK I. HA Rep. 89 No. 31929, fol. 160 BC
- ↑ GStA PK I. HA Rep. 89 No. 31929, fol. 161 r
- ^ Members of the previous academies. Richard Hesse. Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences , accessed on April 4, 2015 (with short biography).
- ↑ taken from: Bruno Streit and Rüdiger Witt: Ecology. UTB Verlag Ulm. Page 175
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Hesse, Richard |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German zoologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 20, 1868 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Nordhausen |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 28, 1944 |
| Place of death | Berlin |