Curt Egon Thesing (21 April 1879, Danzig,

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, today's Gdańsk, Poland – 25 May 1956,

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, West Germany) was a German zoologist, publisher, populariser of science and translator.

Life

In 1913 Thesing joined Otto val Halem as partner and managing director of Veit and Comp. Following wartime propaganda collaboration with a German-Austrian publishers' association, Veit & Comp. was incorporated into

Walter de Gruyter Walter de Gruyter GmbH, known as De Gruyter (), is a German scholarly publishing house specializing in academic literature. History The roots of the company go back to 1749 when Frederick the Great granted the Königliche Realschule in Be ...

on 1 January 1919 – despite some political reservations from Thesing, who was on the political left. In May 1920 he withdrew as a partner from the firm for health reasons.Anne-Katrin Ziesak, Hans-Robert Cram & Kurt-Georg Cram, ''Walter de Gruyter: publishers 1749–1999'', Walter de Gruyter, 1999, pp. 134, 137, 233, 237.

Works

;Authored works * ''Lectures on Biology''. London: John Bale, Sons & Danielsson, 1910. Translated from the 2nd ed. by W. R. Boelter. * ''Stammesgeschichte der Liebe'', Berlin: Brehm,

932 Year 932 (Roman numerals, CMXXXII) was a leap year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. Events By place Europe * Summer – Alberic II of Spoleto, Alberic II leads an uprising at Rome ag ...

Translated by Eden and

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as ''Genealogy of love'', London : Routledge, 1933. American edition ''Genealogy of sex: sex in its myriad forms, from the one-celled animal to the human being''. New York: Emerson Books, 1934. * ''Schule der Biologie '', 1934. Translated by Eden and

as ''School of Biology'', London: G. Routledge and sons, Ltd., 1935. ;Translations *(tr. with Marguerite Thesing) ''Mein Leben und Work'' by

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. Leipzig:

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, 1923. Translated from ''My Life and Work'', New York: Doubleday, Page & Co., 1923 * (tr.) ''Hauptmann Sorrell und sein Sohn: roman'' by

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. Bremen: Schünemann, 1927. Translated from ''Sorrell and Son'', London: Cassell & Co. * (tr.) ''Der rote Handel droht! : Der Frotschritt des Fünfjahresplans der Sowjets'' by

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. 1931. Translated from ''Fighting the Red trade menace'' * (tr.) ''Bezwinger des Hungers'' by

Paul Henry de Kruif Paul Henry de Kruif (, rhyming with "life") (1890–1971) was an American microbiologist and author of Dutch descent. Publishing as Paul de Kruif, he is most noted for his 1926 book, ''Microbe Hunters''. This book was not only a bestseller for a l ...

. Berlin: Holle & Co. Verlag,

934 Year 934 ( CMXXXIV) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. Events By place Byzantine Empire * Spring and Summer – The Hungarians make an alliance with the Pecheneg ...

. Translated from ''Hunger fighters''. * (tr.) ''Frau Buck and ihre Töchter. Roman'' by

. Bremen: Carl Schünemann, Verlag,

937 Year 937 ( CMXXXVII) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. Events By place Europe * A Hungarian army invades Burgundy, and burns the city of Tournus. Then they go southward ...

Translated from ''The Road''.

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