Waldemar Schleip

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Waldemar Schleip (born July 26, 1879 in Freiburg im Breisgau , † May 16, 1948 in Heidelberg ) was a German zoologist .

Life

After high school he studied medicine and zoology and a PhD in both the MD and the Doctor of Philosophy . In 1906 he received his habilitation at the Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg with a habilitation thesis on the topic of seed maturation in planarians .

He then accepted an extraordinary professorship for zoology at the Julius Maximilians University of Würzburg in 1912 , where he succeeded Theodor Boveri at the Zoological Institute (then at Röntgenring 10) as full professor for zoology and comparative anatomy. . He later returned to the Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg and taught there until his retirement . In Würzburg, the professor, who was released on March 31, 1946, was a member of the Academic Senate as director of the administrative committee (based in the Luitpold Hospital ).

Schleip was a member of the board of the German Zoological Society (DZG) as second vice-president from 1928 to 1929 and as president in 1930. In 1931 he was first vice-president of the DZG.

In 1933 he was elected a member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina .

In addition to his teaching and research activities, he published several specialist books such as The development of the chromosomes in the egg of Planaria gonocephala Dugesia (1906), Instructions for the practical study of lower animals: (Protozoa, Coelenterata, Vermes, Echinodermata) (1911), About the Duplicitas cruciata at the O. Schultz's double formations by Rana fusca (1925), Development Mechanics and Heredity in Animals (1927) and The Determination of Primitive Development (1929).

He was also the author of numerous articles in specialist journals such as The development of the head bones in salmon and trout ( Anatomy and embryology , 1904, pp. 331-427), The origin of the polarity of the egg of Ascaris megalocephala ( Development genes and evolution , 1924, pp. 573-598), Die Furchung dispermer Dentalium-Eier ( Development genes and evolution , 1925, pp. 86-123), Development mechanics and inheritance in animals ( Molecular genetics and genomics , 1930, pp. 149-150) and August Weismann's importance for the development of zoology and general biology ( Die Naturwissenschaften , 1934, pp. 33–41).

Web links and sources

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Open Library
  2. ↑ www.hdbg.eu .
  3. ↑ Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg: Lecture directory for the summer semester of 1948. Universitätsdruckerei H. Stürtz, Würzburg 1948, pp. 6 f., 14 and 17.
  4. ↑ Board of the German Zoological Society - General Overview from 1890 - 2012 ( Memento of the original from August 31, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.dzg-ev.de
  5. ↑ Member entry of Waldemar Schleip at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on June 21, 2016.
  6. ^ Regnum Animalia. Retrieved April 29, 2014 .
  7. ^ The Online Books Page
  8. ↑ DFG (national licenses )


personal data
SURNAME Schleip, Waldemar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German zoologist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH July 26, 1879
PLACE OF BIRTH Freiburg in Breisgau
DATE OF DEATH May 16, 1948
Place of death Heidelberg