Karl Kraepelin

Karl Kraepelin ( born December 14, 1848 in Neustrelitz, † June 28, 1915 in Hamburg; Complete name: Matthias Friedrich Karl Magnus Kraepelin ) was a German biologist and director of the Natural History Museum in Hamburg.

Life and work

Karl Kraepelin was a son of the actor, music teacher and Reuter- reciter Karl Kraepelin ( 1817-1882 ).

He attended high school in Carolinum Neustrelitz and studied from 1868 to 1870 in Göttingen and later in Leipzig natural sciences. In 1873 he became a doctor phil. doctorate.

Kraepelin was at the upper middle school in Leipzig and then to 1889 at the secondary school of Johanneums in Hamburg, where he became Professor in 1887 and 1878 teachers. From 1879 he was a member of the museum committee of the Hamburg Natural History Museum and its director from 1889 to 1914.

In 1886 he showed 60 species in the Hamburg water supply equipment, but his warnings were of no consequence until the cholera epidemic of 1892 thousands of fatalities in Hamburg called.

Kraepelin won an international reputation as a specialist for scorpions, limbs and rolling spiders and centipedes.