Wilhelm Breitenbach

Wilhelm Breitenbach, around 1876

Wilhelm Breitenbach (* 21st December 1856 /1857 in Unna , † 1937 ) was a German biologist , zoologist and publisher .

Life

Breitenbach received his doctorate as Dr. phil. in zoology with Ernst Haeckel in Jena and then traveled to Brazil before he worked as a publisher and, from 1908, as editor of the magazine Neue Weltanschauung . He lived in Brackwede and Bielefeld and was a member of the Deutscher Monistenbund for several years.

Works

The province of Rio do Sul, Brazil and the German emigration there. Heidelberg 1885.
German emigration and the question of German colonization in southern Brazil. Duncker and Humblot, Leipzig 1887.
About Germanness in South Brazil. A study. Richter, Hamburg 1887.
Brief presentation of recent German colonial history. Habel, Berlin 1888.
The tribal history of the higher plants . W. Breitenbach, Brackwede 1913.
The foundation and first development of the German Monist Association. W. Breitenbach, Brackwede 1913.
From south Brazil. Memories and Records . W. Breitenbach, Bielefeld 1913.
England as the annihilator of nations . W. Breitenbach, Bielefeld 1917.

literature

Andreas W. Daum : Science popularization in the 19th century. Civil culture, scientific education and the German public, 1848–1914 . 2nd, supplementary edition, Oldenbourg, Munich 2002, ISBN 978-3-486-56551-5 .
Rosemarie Nöthlich: Wilhelm Breitenbach (1856–1937), zoologist, publisher and monist; an analysis of his work. VWB, Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-86135-491-8 .

Web links

Literature by and about Wilhelm Breitenbach in the catalog of the German National Library
Wilhelm Breitenbach in the Lexicon of Westphalian Authors

Individual evidence

↑ In the Wilhelm Breitenbach entry in the Lexicon of Westphalian Authors , the year of birth 1857 is mentioned, GND 132279657 also lists the year of birth 1856 as an alternative.
^ Andreas W. Daum: Science popularization in the 19th century. Civil culture, scientific education and the German public, 1848–1914 . Oldenbourg, Munich 2002, p. 194, 217-219, 325-326, 478 .

personal data
SURNAME	Breitenbach, Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German biologist, zoologist and publisher
DATE OF BIRTH	December 21, 1856
PLACE OF BIRTH	Unna
DATE OF DEATH	1937

[1] In the Wilhelm Breitenbach entry in the Lexicon of Westphalian Authors , the year of birth 1857 is mentioned, GND 132279657 also lists the year of birth 1856 as an alternative.

[2] Andreas W. Daum: Science popularization in the 19th century. Civil culture, scientific education and the German public, 1848–1914 . Oldenbourg, Munich 2002, p. 194, 217-219, 325-326, 478 .