Arthur Looss

Arthur Looss ( born March 16, 1861 in Chemnitz, † May 4, 1923 in Gießen ) was a German zoologist and university professor.

Life

Looss studied natural sciences at the University of Leipzig, particularly under Rudolf Leuckart. There he completed his habilitation in 1889 in zoology, was afterwards worked as a lecturer and in 1896 was appointed extraordinary professor. He moved in the same year, however, at the School of Medicine in Cairo, where he taught until the outbreak of war and researched. In 1922 he became a full honorary professor in Giessen. Since his studies (summer 1880) he was a member of the Leipzig University singers shaft to St. Pauli (today German singer shaft ).

His main research work is the two-volume monograph on the ankylostoma ( hookworms ): "It will remain a standard work of the first rank for all time ," according to a 1932 published medical lexicon.

Works

• About degenerative phenomena in the animal kingdom particularly on the reduction of the tadpole tail and the same occurring in the course histolytischen processes, Leipzig, 1889
• Parasitism in the animal world, Leipzig 1892
• The distomes our fish and frogs. New studies on construction and development of the Distomenkörpers, Stuttgart 1894
• The anatomy and life history of Anchylostoma duodenale Dub. , 2 volumes, 1905/1911