Bernhard Hassenstein

Bernhard Hassenstein ( born May 31, 1922 in Potsdam) is a German behavioral biologist, co-founder of Biocybernetics and professor emeritus.

Life and work

Bernhard Hassenstein was a student of behavior physiologist Erich von Holst and one of the most renowned researchers in the fields of behavioral biology and biological cybernetics. His scientific work includes important contributions to the motion vision of the insects and the color vision of humans. He coined the terms " injunction " (an agent as defined in Item areas where the application of a definition is not appropriate ), and " supporting Ling " ( born pup ). He determined the aggression types and developed cybernetic models of behavior of organisms, such as the maximum passage model.

From 1939 to 1949 Hassenstein studied biology, physics and chemistry in Berlin, Göttingen and Heidelberg. From the third semester he was a research student of Erich von Holst During his military service in 1943, he learned his friend and later scientific partner Werner Reichardt know. He escaped from captivity in 1945 and continued his studies. From 1948 he was an assistant at the Max Planck Institute for Marine Biology, Department of Holst, active in Wilhelmshaven and then changed from 1954 to 1958 at the Zoophysiologische Institute, University of Tübingen, where he habilitated in 1957.

Was founded in 1958 Hassenstein and the physicist Werner Reichardt and engineer Hans Wenking the world's first working group of Cybernetics at the Max Planck Institute for Biology in Tübingen. In 1960 he was appointed as the successor of Otto Koehler Professor of Zoology at the University of Freiburg and reformed there together with Hans Mohr the study of biology in terms of form and content aggregation and interpenetration of botany, zoology, human biology and the general biological subjects genetics, molecular biology, ecology etc.

From 1968 to 1972 Hassenstein represented the biology of the Scientific Council; 1974 to 1981 he was Chairman of the Commission " attorney for the child ," the Ministry of Culture of Baden- Württemberg. In 1974, he supported his wife Helma Hassenstein in the establishment and implementation of the "Programme mother and child - a help to the single mother and her child " in Baden- Württemberg. 1984 Bernhard Hassenstein retired.

Main areas of research

  • Biological Cybernetics
  • Sensory and nervous physiology
  • Behavioral biology of the child
  • Scientific theory of concepts

Memberships

  • Heidelberg Academy of Sciences, since 1961
  • German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina, since 1965
  • Science, 1968-1972

Honors

  • German Society for Pediatrics - Honorary Member (1975 )
  • Max Born Medal for Responsibility in Science (1981 )
  • Karl Küpfmüller ring Darmstadt University of Technology (1981 )
  • Dr. Albert Wander Prize of Wander AG in Bern ( 1984)
  • Dr. honoris causa of the University of Prague ( 1992)
  • Cothenius Medal of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina (1993 )
  • Exhibit " clasp globe and correlation analysis " (with Werner Reichardt ) in the Deutsches Museum Bonn ( with Werner Reichardt ) ( 1995)
  • Honorary Prize of the Cultural Prize of the City of Freiburg ( with Helma Hassenstein ) (2002 )

Writings (selection )

Papers

  • Goethe's morphology as a self-critical science and the current validity of their results. In: Goethe. New episode of the Yearbook of the Goethe Society, Vol 12 (1950 ), pp. 333-357.
  • Principles of comparative anatomy at the Geoffroy Saint- Hilaire, Cuvier and Goethe. In: Goethe et l' esprit français. Actes du colloque international de Strasbourg, 23 - 27th Avril 1957. Les Belles Lettres, Paris 1958, p 153-168.
  • How do insects movements? In: The Natural Sciences, Vol 48 (1961 ), No. 7, pp. 207-214, ISSN 0028-1042.
  • Cybernetics and biological research. In: Ludwig von Bertalanffy ( Lim. ), Fritz Gessner (eds. ): Handbook of the Biology, Vol 1.2: knowledge bases II Academic VG Athenaion, Frankfurt / M. 1966, pp. 630-719.
  • Model calculation of the data processing of color vision of humans. In: Cybernetics, Vol 4 (1968 ), No. 6, pp. 209-223, ISSN 0023-5946.
  • " Homoiostase and coordination ", "order functions of the central nervous system " and " behavior ". In: Gerhard Czihak, Helmut Langer and Hubert Ziegler: Biology. A textbook for students of biology. Springer, Heidelberg, 1976, ISBN 3-540-05727-7.
  • Biological teleonomy. In: New books on philosophy. Teleology, Vol 20 (1981 ), pp. 60-71, ISSN 0085-3917.
  • Genetic, environmental, intelligence quotient and its mathematical and logical relationships. In: Journal of Psychology, Vol 190 (1982), pp. 345-365, ISSN 2190-8370.
  • The biologist. In: Gottfried Schramm (ed.): Narrated experience. Rombach -Verlag, Freiburg / B. 1991, pp. 83-114, ISBN 978-3-7930-9525-5.
  • Otto Koehler ( 1889-1974 ). In: Dietrich Rauschning (ed.): The Albertus University of Königsberg and their professors. Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1995, pp. 601-618, ISBN 3-428-08546-9.
  • Biological theories and their influences on intellectual movements of the 20th century. In: Protestant Association for Philosophical Questions: Material Service, Vol 59 (1996 ), pp. 193-199, ISSN 0721-2402

Monographs

  • Cub and of man in view of the comparative ethology. Lecture ( Publication Series of the Medical association Württemberg; Vol. 17). Gentner, Stuttgart 1970.
  • Information and control in the living organism. An elementary introduction. Chapman Hall, London 1971.
  • Biological Cybernetics. An elementary introduction. 5th edition Quelle & Meyer, Heidelberg 1977, ISBN 3-494-00184-7.
  • The child in preschool and primary school age. 7th edition Herder, Freiburg / B. 1978, ISBN 3-451-09005-8 (together with Gottfried Heinelt and Christa Meves ).
  • Freiburg lectures on human biology. Quelle & Meyer, Heidelberg 1979, ISBN 3-494-00974-0.
  • Instinct, learning, playing, insight. Introduction to behavioral biology. Piper, Munich, 1980, ISBN 3-492-00493-8.
  • Give children what they need. Identify stages of development, promote development ( Herder spectrum; vol 5327 ). 4th Ed Herder, Freiburg / B. 2003, ISBN 3-451-05327-6 (along with Helma Hassenstein ).
  • Wisdom. Building blocks of the natural history of our mental faculties. 3rd edition Bucheinband.De, Berlin 2004, ISBN 3-938293-00-4 ( bucheinband.de ).
  • Behavioral biology of the child. 6th edition Monsenstein and Vannerdat, Münster 2007, ISBN 978-3-938568-51-4 (along with Helma Hassenstein ).

As editor

  • Political behavior as a problem of biological anthropology. Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Bad Godesberg in 1968.
  • Schoolchildren help. The work of the Commission Recommendation " attorney for the child " Baden- Württemberg ( Documentation paediatrica ). Hansi cal Verlagskontor, Lübeck 1981.
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