Wilhelm Schmidt (zoologist)

Wilhelm Joseph Jakob Schmidt (born February 21, 1884 in Bonn , North Rhine-Westphalia , † February 14, 1974 in Langen , Hesse ) was a German zoologist .

Life

Wilhelm Schmidt, son of Bonn city Rentmeister's Jacob Hubert Schmidt (* 1849, † 1934), and the baker's daughter Agnes nee Schmitz (* 1848, † 1912), devoted himself to the put-away high school on Beethoven-Gymnasium Bonn to study zoology, botany , physics and Chemistry at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn , in 1907 he passed the examination for the higher teaching post, in 1908 he received his doctorate under Adolf Borgert . In 1910 he completed his habilitation as a private lecturer in zoology and comparative anatomy in Bonn, and in 1918 he was appointed as an adjunct professor . In 1926 he followed a call to the chair for zoology and comparative anatomy as well as the management of the zoological institute at the Justus Liebig University in Giessen , in 1953 he retired .

Wilhelm Schmidt - he was co-editor of the "Journal for Scientific Microscopy" - achieved notoriety in particular through his fundamental studies of animal cells and tissues with the polarizing microscope . Wilhelm Schmidt had been a member of the German Zoological Society since 1909 , which he chaired in 1936/37, and was later made an honorary member . In 1934 Schmidt was accepted into the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , in 1954 he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences . In 1955 Schmidt was awarded the Schleiden Medal . He also received honorary doctorates from the Universities of Giessen and Bonn.

Fonts

• Contributions to the knowledge of the soft body and the reproduction of the Castanellids, inaugural dissertation , art print A. Broch, 1908
• The integument of Voeltzkowia mira Bttgr: a contribution to the morphology and histology of the lizard skin, habilitation thesis , Engelmann, 1910
• Instructions for polarization microscopic examinations for biologists, F. Cohen, Bonn 1924
• The building blocks of the animal body in polarized light, F. Cohen, Bonn 1924
• Polarization-optical analysis of the submicroscopic structure of cells and tissues, Urban and Schwarzenberg, 1934
• The birefringence of caryoplasm , cytoplasm and metaplasm, Borntraeger, Berlin 1937
• With Adolf Keil: The healthy and the diseased tooth tissues of humans and vertebrates in the polarization microscope: theory, methodology, results of the optical structure analysis of the hard tooth substances and their surroundings, Hanser, Munich 1958

literature

• Peter Moraw , Volker Press , Hans Georg Gundel (eds.): Giessener scholars in the first half of the 20th century, Volume 2, Part 2, NG Elwert Verlag, Marburg 1982, ISBN 3-7708-0724-3 . P. 847.
• Walther Killy and Rudolf Vierhaus (eds.): German Biographical Encyclopedia . Volume 9, KG Saur Verlag GmbH & Co. KG, Munich 1996, ISBN 3-598-23163-6 . P. 21.
• Dieter Zissler:  Schmidt, Wilhelm Joseph Jakob. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 23, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-428-11204-3 , p. 221 ( digitized version ).

Web links

• Literature by and about Wilhelm Schmidt in the catalog of the German National Library