Wilhelm Kükenthal

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Wilhelm Georg Kükenthal (born August 4, 1861 in Weißenfels , † August 22, 1922 in Berlin ) was a German zoologist and explorer. He was a university lecturer in Jena, Breslau and Berlin and was considered a specialist in corals and whales.

biography

Kükenthal was an older brother of the theologian and botanist Georg Kükenthal . He attended schools in Weißenfels and Halle (Saale) . After graduating from high school, he began to study natural sciences at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich . In 1880 he was reciprocated in the Corps Makaria Munich (xxx, FM). As an inactive he moved to the University of Jena . There he was promoted to Dr. phil. PhD . He completed his habilitation in 1886 and became professor of zoology in 1889 . In 1891 he was elected to the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina .

In 1898 Kükenthal followed the call of the Royal University of Breslau to the chair of zoology and comparative anatomy . At the same time he became head of the Zoological Museum. He was a consultant in the doctoral procedure to obtain the doctorate of the philosophical faculty of the University of Breslau for Hugo Reinhart with his inaugural dissertation "About the finer construction of some nephthyids". After a visiting professorship at the University of Cambridge in 1911 and 1912, Kükenthal was elected rector of the University of Breslau for the academic year 1916/17 . In 1918 Kükenthal became professor of zoology at the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Berlin and director of the Zoological Museum . From 1919 he was a full member of the Prussian Academy of Sciences

He traveled extensively to collect study material. He toured the west coast of Norway in 1883 and 1885 and worked at the Bergen Museum . Meanwhile, at the Naples zoological station , he undertook in 1886 by Tromsø from a trip to the Arctic to whales to study. In 1889 a second trip to the Arctic followed to the little explored east coast of Spitsbergen and to König-Karl-Land . In 1894 he explored the Malay Archipelago and the northern Moluccas . In view of his broad zoological interest, he collected a lot of material, most of which is now in the Senckenberg Museum in Frankfurt . The octocorallia were a specialty .

1918/19 Kükenthal was President of the German Zoological Society . Eight years after the first symptoms, he died shortly after his 61st birthday a cancer .

Honors

Fonts

  • Comparative anatomical and evolutionary studies on animals , two volumes, Fischer, Jena 1889/1893.
  • Research trip to the European Arctic Ocean 1889 , Bremen 1890 ( digitized version )
  • Research trip to the Moluccas and Borneo , Frankfurt a. M., 1896 ( digitized version )
  • Guide for the zoological internship , 1898 (continued and revised to this day: 26th edition 2009, digitized 6th edition, 1912)
  • with Wilhelm Sievers : Australia, Oceania and Polar Countries , in W. Sievers: Allgemeine Länderkunde , 1902, 1910.
  • with Robert Hartmeyer: Results of a zoological research trip to the West Indies in 1907 , Fischer, Jena 1916.
  • Handbook of Zoology, de Gruyter, Berlin 1925.
  • Willy Kükenthal's letters and diary entries from his trip to the Malay Archipelago 1893–1894 , Springer Spectrum, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-662-54876-9 .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1960, 110/249
  2. ↑ (From the Zoological Institute of the University of Breslau) About the finer structure of some Nephthyids . "Inaugural dissertation to obtain the doctorate of the High Philosophical Faculty of the Royal University of Breslau submitted and published with their permission by Hugo Reinhart from Breslau", Verlag Gustav Fischer, Jena 1907, [Note on the back of the title page] Speaker: Professor Dr. W. Kükenthal.
  3. ↑ Rector's speeches (HKM)
  4. ↑ Kükenthalfjellet . In: The Place Names of Svalbard (first edition 1942). Norsk Polarinstitutt , Oslo 2001, ISBN 82-90307-82-9 (English, Norwegian).
  5. ↑ Kükenthalbreen . In: The Place Names of Svalbard (first edition 1942). Norsk Polarinstitutt , Oslo 2001, ISBN 82-90307-82-9 (English, Norwegian).
personal data
SURNAME Kükenthal, Wilhelm
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kükenthal, Wilhelm Georg (full name); Kükenthal, Willy
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German zoologist
DATE OF BIRTH 4th August 1861
PLACE OF BIRTH Weissenfels
DATE OF DEATH August 22, 1922
Place of death Berlin