Klaus Peter Sauer (2 February 1941 – 12 November 2022) was a German evolutionary biologist and ecologist.

Biography

After graduating from the in

Giessen Giessen, spelled Gießen in German (), is a town in the German state (''Bundesland'') of Hesse, capital of both the district of Giessen and the administrative region of Giessen. The population is approximately 90,000, with roughly 37,000 univers ...

, Sauer studied biology, genetics, chemistry, and mathematics at the University of Giessen. From 1969 to 1971, he was a research assistant at Giessen and from 1971 to 1979, a research assistant of

Günther Osche Günther Osche (also spelled Guenther Osche, born 7 August 1926 in Neustadt an der Weinstraße, died 2 February 2009 in Freiburg im Breisgau) was a German evolutionary biologist, ecologist and parasitologist. He started his career with a research ...

at the University of Freiburg. In 1979, he was appointed chair of evolutionary research at Bielefeld University. In 1992, Sauer became head of the Institute for Evolutionary Biology and Ecology at the University of Bonn. From 1993 to 1999, he was coordinator of the

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program ''Genetische Analyse von Sozialsystemen'' and was spokesperson of the ''Genetische Analyse von Sozialsystemen'' program from 2002 to 2004. He retired in 2008. Sauer died on 12 November 2022, at the age of 81.

Honors

*Liaison lecturer of the

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(1977–1979, 1990–1992) *Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the (1990–1994) *Deputy Chairman of the Deutsche Zoologische Gesellschaft (1991–1993) *President of the Deutsche Zoologische Gesellschaft (1994–1996) *Member of the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina (since 1999)

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Sauer, Klaus Peter 1941 births 2022 deaths German ecologists German zoologists Evolutionary biologists University of Giessen alumni Academic staff of the University of Bonn Academic staff of Bielefeld University People from Frankfurt