Werner Heinen

Werner Franz Jakob Heinen (born October 23, 1896 in Oberpleis , Siegkreis , † October 22, 1976 in Cologne ) was a German biologist and writer .

Life

Werner Heinen was the son of a pharmacist . After attending grammar school in Siegburg , he studied mathematics , botany and zoology at the universities in Bonn and Cologne. In 1922 he received his doctorate in philosophy from the University of Cologne . From 1924 onwards, Heinen was a study assessor in Cologne and from 1926 in Essen . From 1929 he worked as a high school teacher in Bergneustadt , from 1935 to 1945 in Essen. From 1947 he taught as a lecturer biology at the Catholic Teacher Training College in Oberhausen , from 1953 to 1966 he was Professor at the Pedagogical Academy in Cologne.

Werner Heinen wrote not only popular science articles on natural history topics, but also novels , stories , poems and plays .

From 1950 he was a member of the board of the West German authors' association . In 1967 he was awarded the Federal Cross of Merit, 1st class.

Since 1941 he was married to Elisabeth Hermann. Heinen died one day before his 80th birthday in a Cologne hospital.

Works

• Observations on the influence of adrenaline on the capillary width, as well as swelling and de-swelling effective solutions in the frog , Cologne 1922
• The brown death , Cologne 1931
• Ruby in basalt , Munich 1931
• The flight to Egypt , Saarbrücken 1933
• The storm bell of Oberpleis , Bergneustadt 1933
• Bread made from stones , Breslau 1934
• Tristan Röder , Breslau 1935
• The legend of the lost child , Munich 1936
• Rebels on the Rhine , Munich 1936
• Agrion (The Story of a Dragonfly) , Hugo Bermühler Verlag, Berlin-Lichterfelde 1938
• Architecture in the Roggenhalm and other natural history chats and descriptions , Cologne 1941
• The free episode , Essen 1941
• The young genius , Essen 1941
• Animated Land , Essen 1943
• Falcons in the Fens , Essen 1947
• The singing year , Essen 1947
• Biological chats , Bonn 1948
• The three remedies against love , Essen 1948
• The Oberpleis Thousand Year Game " , Oberpleis 1948
• Die Insel , Bonn 1953
• My natural history book , Düsseldorf 1953
• Robbers in the night , Bonn 1956
• Flood, embers and ash , Bonn am Rh. 1960
• Where does man come from? , Olten [u. a.] 1962
• Living microcosm , Berlin 1963
• Monotropa , Großkrotzenburg 1975

Editing

• Dialogue with animals , Essen 1942

Web links

• Article about Heinen from the "Siebengebirgs-Zeitung" from 1971
• Text of the "Oberpleis Thousand Years Game" (PDF file; 407 kB)
• Text from Heine's poem "The old storm bell from Oberpleis"

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Death certificate no. 1357 from October 26, 1976, registry office Cologne old town. In: LAV NRW R civil status register. Retrieved June 6, 2018 .