Ulrich Sedlag

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Ulrich Sedlag (r.) 1971 at the Institute for Forest Sciences Eberswalde

Ulrich Sedlag (born April 3, 1923 in Groß Bellschwitz near Rosenberg in West Prussia ; † March 16, 2016 ) was a German entomologist and zoologist .

Life

He was born as the third child of Pastor Karl Sedlag and his wife Luise, née Angermann. The family moved to Rastenburg in 1929 , where Sedlag received his school education. Due to the war, he was unable to graduate from high school. After Reich labor service in Brandenburg and a period of recruitment in Prague and Königsberg, he was on the frontline in North Africa and was taken prisoner during the surrender in May 1943. After his release from captivity, he went to his parents in Wittenberg via Munich, where he was able to work in the church research home of Pastor Otto Kleinschmidt, who is known as an ornithologist and evolutionary researcher . Sedlag was admitted to study without a high school diploma and attended lectures on biology, chemistry and geology at the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg from 1946 to 1948 and then until 1950 at the University of Jena . After graduating, he found a job at the Central Biological Institute in Aschersleben and married Renate Freiin von Willisen († 2001). After completing his doctorate on the ventral tube of the Collembola with Ludwig Freund in Halle, he became senior assistant at the Zoological Institute of the University of Greifswald with Rolf Keilbach . Sedlag completed his habilitation in 1958 with a thesis on parasites of aphids and in 1960 went to the then Technical University of Dresden as a professor . There he got a teaching position, became director of the institute for zoology, got his own chair in 1964 and finally became dean of the Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences. After the dissolution of the institutes for zoology and botany in Dresden in 1967 Sedlag took over the forest protection department in the institute for forest sciences in Eberswalde . The work there was extremely unsatisfactory for him. He therefore resigned from civil service in 1975 and became a freelance writer. In the following time he went on extensive lecture tours and became the author of numerous books.

The German Society for General and Applied Entomology honored him with the Meigen Medal in 2001 and honorary membership in 2013.

Books (selection)

  • Wonderful world of insects , Urania-Verlag, 1978
  • Wildlife in Danger , Urania-Verlag, 1983, ISBN 978-3-570-09141-8
  • Biogeography, speciation, evolution. Fischer-Verlag, Jena 1987, ISBN 3-334-00030-3 . (with Erich Weinert)
  • Animal geography. (from the series "Urania-Tierreich"). Urania, Berlin 1995, ISBN 3-332-00387-9 .

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  1. ↑ Obituary notice (accessed on March 22, 2016)
  2. ^ Bernhard Klausnitzer (2003): Ulrich Sedlag on his 80th birthday. Entomological News and Reports 47 (1): 37-38.
  3. ↑ Ulrich Sedlag (1951): Investigations into the ventral tube problem of the Collembola. Dissertation, University of Halle-Wittenberg.
  4. ^ Ulrich Sedlag (1957): Investigations on bionomy, anatomy and mass change of Diaeretus rapae Curt. <Hymenoptera: Aphidiidae>. Habilitation thesis, University of Greifswald.
  5. ↑ Bernhard Klausnitzer (2013): Prof. Dr. habil. Ulrich Sedlag on his 90th birthday. DGaaE News 27 (2): 90-91.

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personal data
SURNAME Sedlag, Ulrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German zoologist and entomologist
DATE OF BIRTH April 3, 1923
PLACE OF BIRTH Big Bellschwitz
DATE OF DEATH March 16, 2016