Carl Apstein

Carl Heinrich Apstein ( born September 19, 1862 in Stettin, † November 14, 1950 in Berlin) was a German zoologist and scientific officer.

Life

Carl Apstein was the son of the army provisions Master Apstein Adolph and his wife Minna Apstein born Westphalen. He attended high school in Halle an der Saale, and studied at the universities of Leipzig, Freiburg i Br and Kiel. In 1889 he received his doctorate with a thesis on the silk glands of the Real orb-weaving spiders to Dr. phil. and became an assistant to Karl Brandt at the Zoological Institute of the University of Kiel. Here he took part in the editing of extensive material of plankton expedition. On May 18, 1898, he habilitated in Kiel of zoology and comparative anatomy. From August 1898 to May 1899, he participated in the run by Carl Chun German deep-sea expedition by steamer Valdivia as a zoologist. As after the plankton expedition he edited then the salps. Even after the German South Polar Expedition 1901-1903 him this class of animals was left for processing. On October 11, 1906, he was appointed associate professor in Kiel.

1911 moved Apstein on a scientific officer position at the Prussian Academy of Sciences in Berlin. It now occurred mainly as a publisher of scientific serials and periodicals produced in the field of zoology. These included " Scientific Results of the German deep-sea expedition on the steamer, Valdivia ' 1898-1899 ", "Nordic plankton ", " Zoological Report" and " negotiations of the German Zoological Society ". He was also [ [ Editor < font manager] ] of the series " The animal kingdom. A compilation and identification of recent animal forms. " He also was a member of the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature and 1918-1945 first secretary of the board of the German Zoological Society.

Apstein was married to Anna Süverkrüp since June 24, 1905. The couple had three daughters.

Writings (selection )

  • Carl Apstein: construction and function of the silk glands of Araneida. Inaugural Dissertation, Kiel 1889.
  • Carl Apstein: The freshwater plankton. Method and results of the quantitative study. Kiel 1896 doi: 10.5962/bhl.title.53613
  • Carl Apstein: Animal life on the high seas: travel companion for sailors. Lipsius and Tischer, Kiel 1905.
  • Carl Apstein: The Thaliacea the Plankton Expedition. B. distribution of salps. ( = Victor Hensen ( Eds.): Results of the Plankton Expedition of the Humboldt Foundation, Vol 2), 1894, pp. 1-68.
  • Carl Apstein: The salps of the German deep-sea expedition. ( = Carl Chun (eds. ): Scientific results of the German deep-sea expedition on the steamer " Valdivia " 1898-1899, Vol 12), Fischer, Jena, 1906, pp. 245-290.
  • Carl Apstein: The salps of the German South Polar Expedition. ( = Erich von Drygalski (ed.): German South Polar Expedition 1901-1903, Vol 9 ), 1906, pp. 155-203.
  • Karl Brandt and Carl Apstein (ed.): Nordic plankton, eight volumes, Lipsius and Tischer, Kiel and Leipzig from 1901 to 1942.

Swell

  • Eberhard Stechow: Apstein, Carl Heinrich. In: New German Biography ( NDB ). Volume 1, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1953, ISBN 3-428-00182-6, p 331 ( digitized ).
  • Friedrich Volbehr and Richard Weyl: Professors and lecturers of the Christian -Albrechts -University of Kiel from 1665 to 1915, Schmidt and Klaunig, Kiel 1916, p 158
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