Sievert Lorenzen
Sievert Lorenzen (* 1938 in Berlin ) is a German zoologist . He is a professor at the Christian Albrechts University in Kiel .
Lorenzen studied biology and mathematics and received his doctorate in Kiel in 1968 (meiofauna on the Watt / Salzwiese border in the area of the German North Sea coast). He published mainly on marine nematodes , including a monograph on the phylogeny and systematics of marine nematodes, his Kiel habilitation in 1979, published in English by the Ray Society . He also dealt with evolutionary theory.
He is committed to animal welfare and is a critic of factory farming (for example in the context of BSE ) and has been honorary chairman of the board of Provieh eV , which is dedicated to the protection of farm animals , since 2008 .
Fonts
- Design of a phylogenetic system for free-living nematodes, Bremen: Leuwer 1981
- English edition: The phylogenetic systematics of freeliving nematodes, Ray Society 1994
- The family Epsilonematidae (Nematodes), microfauna of the sea floor 25, Steiner 1973
- Glochinema nov. gen. (Nematodes, Epsilonematidae) from southern Chile, microfauna of the sea floor 47, Steiner 1974
- Rhynchonema species (Nematodes, Monhysteridae) from South America and Europe, microfauna of the sea floor 55, Mainz: Academy of Sciences and Literature, Steiner 1975
- Editor: Darwin and the Theory of Evolution, Spectrum of Science 1988
- How to advance from the theory of natural selection towards a General Theory of Self-Organization, in Dieter Stefan Peters, Michael Weingarten (Eds.), Organisms, genes and evolution: evolutionary theory at the crossroads. Scientific society at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main. Writings, Volume 14, 2000, pp. 119-127
- with Roland Scholz: The phantom BSE danger: wrong ways of science and politics in the BSE scandal, Berenkamp 2005
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SURNAME | Lorenzen, Sievert |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German zoologist |
DATE OF BIRTH | 1938 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Berlin |