Thilo Krumbach
Max Emil Thilo Krumbach (born March 21, 1874 in Eisleben , † February 21, 1949 in Berlin ) was a German zoologist .
Life
Thilo Krumbach first studied three semesters at the University of Jena in 1897 and 1898 , then switched to the University of Breslau in September 1898 , where he was an assistant at the Zoological Institute and Museum and in 1907 he contributed to the knowledge of the Medusa Eleutheria with Wilhelm Kükenthal's dissertation (Clavatella) from the Gulf of Trieste PhD .
In 1908 he took over the management of the marine zoological station of the Berlin aquarium in Rovigno as the successor to the recently deceased Swiss zoologist Rudolf Burckhardt . After the Berlin Aquarium went downhill a few years later and the limited partnership filed for bankruptcy, the Breslau manor owner and patron Paul Schottländer provided the Kaiser Wilhelm Society, which had just been founded in January 1911 , with the sum of 100 required to acquire the station 000 marks available so that the Zoological Station Rovigno could take over on October 1, 1911. From this point on, Thilo Krumbach continued to work as a scientific member of the Kaiser Wilhelm Society and head of the Rovigno Zoological Station. After Italian troops had captured Rovigno on November 4, 1918, Thilo Krumbach managed to move parts of the station's inventory and the library aside before he fled himself.
Thilo Krumbach later worked as a director at the Museum and Institute for Oceanography at the University of Berlin .
He was the editor of several volumes of the series Handbuch der Zoologie, founded by Wilhelm Kükenthal in Verlag Walter de Gruyter . A natural history of the tribes of the animal kingdom.
Thilo Krumbach was an External Scientific Member of the German-Italian Institute for Marine Biology from 1933 to 1949 and was admitted to the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina in 1940 in the Zoology Section .
The Foraminifere Spiroloculina krumbachi Wiesner , 1911, was named in his honor.
He was married to Hilda Dora Danica Countess Lanjus von Wellenburg (* 1887), a daughter of the Vice Admiral of the Austro-Hungarian Navy, Karl Lanjus von Wellenburg .
Fonts (selection)
- About the grappling hooks of the Chätognathen. A biological study. At the same time a contribution to the systematics of this group of animals . In: Zoological Yearbooks. Department for Systematics, Geography and Biology of Animals, 18, 1903, pp. 579–646 ( digitized version )
- Contributions to the knowledge of the Medusa Eleutheria (Clavatella) from the Gulf of Trieste. Inaugural dissertation, Korn, Breslau 1907 ( digitized version )
literature
- Ferdinand Albert Pax : Krumbach, T. In: Naturwissenschaftliche Rundschau , Volume 2, Stuttgart 1949, pp. 227–228
Web links
- Member Post by Thilo Krumbach at the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina
- Krumbach, Thilo in the German biography
- Krumbach, Thilo (1874–1949) in the Kalliope group
- Literature by and about Thilo Krumbach in the bibliographic database WorldCat
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Krumbach, Thilo |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Krumbach, Max Emil Thilo (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German zoologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 21, 1874 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Eisleben |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 21, 1949 |
| Place of death | Berlin |