Rudolf Burckhardt (zoologist)
Karl Rudolf Burckhardt (born March 30, 1866 in Basel , † January 14, 1908 in Rovigno ) was a Swiss zoologist .
Life
Karl Rudolf Burckhardt was a son of the Swiss teacher and scientist Friedrich Burckhardt (1830-1913) and his wife Elisabeth (1836-1884), née Brenner, a daughter of the Swiss psychiatrist Friedrich Brenner .
Rudolf Burckhardt studied zoology at the universities in Basel , Leipzig and Berlin and was awarded a doctorate in 1889 with his dissertation on histological investigations on the spinal cord of the tritons in Basel. phil. PhD .
From 1889 to 1893 he worked as an assistant to Oscar Hertwig in Berlin on the vertebrate brain, completed his habilitation in 1893 and in 1894 became associate professor of palaeontology , comparative anatomy and the history of vertebrate development at the Zoological Institute of the University of Basel. From 1899 he also worked in Basel as assistant curator of the zoological collections. In 1907 Rudolf Burckhardt took over the management of the marine zoological station of the Berlin aquarium in Rovigno.
Rudolf Burckhardt made important contributions to the understanding of the history of development through his comparative anatomical, neurological and paleontological studies.
On July 14, 1899, Rudolf Burckhardt was registered under the registration number. 3125 admitted to the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina as a member .
In 1907 he was the doctoral supervisor of the Swiss paleontologist Samuel Schaub and Julia Gisi (1881–1977), the first woman to receive a doctorate from the Faculty of Philosophy at the University of Basel.
Fonts
- Histological examinations of the spinal cord of the tritons . In: Archive for microscopic anatomy, 34, Bonn 1889, pp. 131–156 ( digitized version )
- History of zoology . Göschen Collection, Leipzig 1907 ( digitized version )
literature
- Luc Lienhard: Rudolf Burckhardt. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . April 10, 2003 , accessed April 13, 2020 .
- Rudolf Vierhaus (Ed.): German Biographical Encyclopedia. 2nd edition. Volume 2. Saur, Munich 2005, p. 221 ( digitized version )
Web links
- Member entry of Rudolf Burckhardt at the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina
- Literature by and about Rudolf Burckhardt (zoologist) in the bibliographic database WorldCat
Notes and individual references
- ^ Karl von Fritsch (ed.): Leopoldina . Official organ of the Imperial Leopoldino-Carolinian German Academy of Natural Scientists. 35th issue. In commission at Wilh. Engelmann in Leipzig, Halle 1899, p. 121 ( biodiversitylibrary.org ).
- ↑ Julia Gisi: The brain of Hatteria punctata . Inaugural dissertation University of Basel, Lippert, Naumburg as 1907 ( dissertation with dedication for R. Burckhardt )
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Burckhardt, Rudolf |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Burckhardt, Karl Rudolf (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swiss zoologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 30, 1866 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Basel |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 14, 1908 |
| Place of death | Rovigno |