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

Web links

• University of Kiel