Eugen Korschelt

Eugen Korschelt ( born September 28, 1858 in Zittau, † 28 December 1946 in Marburg ) was a German zoologist.

Life

Teaching and research

Korschelt studied after high school biology and was appointed post-doctoral and post-doctoral professor of zoology at the University of Marburg.

In addition to his teaching, he dealt primarily comparative and experimental development history and zoology. In addition, work done for the biological regeneration and transplantation. During his teaching career, he served as doctor father of John Meisenheimer and Hermann Wurmsbach, discussing About the healing of bone fractures in amphibians his doctorate in 1927 with a dissertation on him.

Korschelt 1892 Director of the Marburger Zoological Institute, succeeding Richard Greeff. In this role, he built the facility from a real institution, after it was moved in 1903 in the anatomy building of the University of Marburg. Both from 1904 to 1905 and from 1914 to 1915 he was rector of the Philipps- University.

He was also from 1912 to 1913 President of the German Zoological Society ( DZG ).

Publications

Eugen Korschelt co-authored with the Austrian zoologist Karl Heider, the two-volume standard work textbook of comparative evolutionary history of invertebrates (General Section from 1902 to 1903, Special Section 1893). In addition, he was co-editor of the ten-volume Handbook of Natural Sciences ( 1912-1915 ).

He also published numerous other books and monographs such as:

  • For the formation of the middle germ layer in the echinoderms, 1899
  • Life, aging and death, 1917
  • Zoology, 1922
  • About healed fractures in some vertebrates, 1927
  • Regeneration and Transplantation ( 2 volumes, 1927-1931 )
  • Healed fractures in wild and captive animals, 1928
  • Further observations of healed fractures of wild animals, 1932
  • About the constancy in the occurrence of bone thickening at the fish skeleton, 1938.

Finally, he wrote two autobiographies: On the one hand, the house on the love. Memories of a long life (1939 ), on the other from half a century of biological research ( 1940).

External links and sources

  • Literature by and about Eugene Korschelt in the catalog that German national library
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