Max Hartmann (7 June 1876 – 11 October 1962) was a German biologist, alluded to in the book ''Phylogenetic Systematics'' by
Willi Hennig
Emil Hans Willi Hennig (20 April 1913 – 5 November 1976) was a German biologist and zoologist who is considered the founder of phylogenetic systematics, otherwise known as cladistics. In 1945 as a prisoner of war, Hennig began work on his the ...
for his investigations into divisions of sciences, most notably into descriptive and explanatory. He was a philosopher of science and the author of ''Allgemeine Biology''.
The publicly available abstract of an article in ''Nature'' Magazine (1946) presents him as a student of the sexuality and fertilization in
Protozoa and
Algae; that "he can look back upon a fine record of original research... His investigations of ‘relative sexuality’
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Ij ( fa, ايج, also Romanized as Īj; also known as Hich and Īch) is a village in Golabar Rural District, in the Central District of Ijrud County, Zanjan Province, Iran
Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran, and also ...
have led to very important biochemical studies of the substances produced and released by gametes and essential for fertilization in Algae, echinoderms, molluscs and fishes"; and that he was an outspoken critic of Nazism. Hartmann was director of the
Kaiser Wilhelm Institut für Biologie.
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*Full text of ''Allgemeine Biologie'' at https://archive.org/stream/allgemeinebiolog00chun/allgemeinebiolog00chun_djvu.txt
20th-century German biologists
1876 births
1962 deaths
Natural philosophers
20th-century German philosophers
Humboldt University of Berlin faculty
University of Tübingen faculty
Members of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences
Members of the Prussian Academy of Sciences
Members of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences
Foreign associates of the National Academy of Sciences
Recipients of the Pour le Mérite (civil class)
20th-century German zoologists
Members of the German Academy of Sciences at Berlin
Max Planck Institute directors
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