Wilhelm Goetsch

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Johann Heinrich Wilhelm Goetsch (born October 25, 1887 in Gotha , † March 20, 1960 in Säckingen ) was a German zoologist.

Career

Goetsch completed his habilitation in zoology and comparative anatomy in Strasbourg in 1917, was from 1921 at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich and from 1929 to 1931 a full professor of biology and zoology at the Universidad de Chile . From 1934 to 1945 he was a full professor of zoology at the University of Breslau . Immediately after the war, he conducted research in private laboratories in Krumpendorf , Salzburg and Barcelona . In 1947 he became an honorary professor at the University of Graz .

He first dealt with freshwater polyps and after his first trips to South America (1921, continued until 1958), especially to Chile, with state-building insects, about which he published several books. In the late 1940s and early 1950s, he propagated a so-called vitamin T (or active ingredient T), which attracted some attention at the time. It should have promoted the growth of termites and was also propagated by Goetsch in human medicine for children in times of shortage after the war. It was an extract from tube mushrooms and yeasts, which also contained B vitamins, but also, for example, carnitine , deoxyribosides, various amino acids and oligopeptides and thus did not consist exclusively of vitamins.

In 1944 he became a member of the Leopoldina .

Fonts

  • About skin bone formation in teleosts and in Amia calva . In: Archive for microscopic anatomy, 86, I, Friedrich Cohen, Bonn 1915 pp. 435–468, Taf. XVIII-XIX Archive.org
  • Animal Constructions: New Results in Experimental Zoology. Allgemeine Verlags-Anstalt, Munich 1925.
  • Ant and termite studies in Ischia, Capri and Naples. In: Zoological Yearbooks. 80, 1/2, Jena 1951, pp. 63-98 ( archive.org ).
  • The states of the ants. 2nd supplementary edition (= Understandable Science. Volume 33). Springer, Berlin 1953 (first edition: 1937).
  • Comparative biology of the insect states. 2nd Edition. Geest and Portig, Leipzig 1953 (first edition: Akademische Verlagsgesellschaft 1940).
  • The ants. The University of Michigan Press, Ann Arbor 1957 ( archive.org ).

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Vitamin T: Forces you to eat. In: Der Spiegel. February 28, 1951.
  2. ^ W. Kübler: Vitamin T. in: H. Opitz, F. Schmid (Ed.): Handbuch der Kinderheilkunde. Volume 4, Springer 1965, p. 472.
  3. ^ Member entry by Wilhelm Goetsch at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on March 20, 2017.
personal data
SURNAME Goetsch, Wilhelm
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Goetsch, Johann Heinrich Wilhelm (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German zoologist
DATE OF BIRTH October 25, 1887
PLACE OF BIRTH Gotha
DATE OF DEATH March 20, 1960
Place of death Säckingen