Hans-Jürgen Stammer (born 21 September 1899 in Pötrau near
Büchen
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Büchen is situated on the El ...
; died 24 October 1968 in
Erlangen
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) was a German
zoologist
Zoology ( , ) is the scientific study of animals. Its studies include the structure, embryology, classification, habits, and distribution of all animals, both living and extinct, and how they interact with their ecosystems. Zoology is one ...
,
ecologist
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and director of the Zoological Institute of the
University Erlangen.
biography
Stammer was a student of
Paul Buchner (1886–1978), the director of the zoological institute of the
University Greifswald. Stammer fellowed Buchner to the
University Breslau, where he began doing research in the field of ecology. Here he was habilitated in 1931. 1938 Stammer became the director of the Zoological Institute of the University Erlangen. There he was very active in teaching and researching and supervised diploma theses or phd-theses of about 200 students. Stammer was retired in 1967.
research
As an ecologist and zoologist he was interested in unusual and small habitats, which were only poorly studied or completely unknown concerning their biodiversity. In such micro-habitats, he often discovered
nematode
The nematodes ( or ; ; ), roundworms or eelworms constitute the phylum Nematoda. Species in the phylum inhabit a broad range of environments. Most species are free-living, feeding on microorganisms, but many are parasitic. Parasitic worms (h ...
s and
mites
Mites are small arachnids (eight-legged arthropods) of two large orders, the Acariformes and the Parasitiformes, which were historically grouped together in the subclass Acari. However, most recent genetic analyses do not recover the two as eac ...
as well as some other organisms. He supervised students, who studied these organisms in detail. That way, his students became specialists for designated animal groups. They formed the so-called "Stammer-School".
Besides free living and non-parasitic organisms, Stammer also made research in the field of
parasitology
Parasitology is the study of parasites, their host (biology), hosts, and the relationship between them. As a List of biology disciplines, biological discipline, the scope of parasitology is not determined by the organism or environment in questio ...
. The evolutionary biologist
Günther Osche started his career with a nematode-research (genus Rhabditis) having Stammer as his scientific supervisor .
Stammer was honored with several species, which were named after him, for example: Nitocrella stammeri Chappuis, 1938; Zausodes stammeri Jakobi, 1954; Lohmanella stammeri Viets, 1939 or
Histiostoma stammeri Scheucher, 1957.
Literature
* G. Alberti (2004): Tribute to the past – notes on the history of Acarology in Germany. Phytophaga, XIV: 13-56.
* Matthes D., Osche G., Tretzel E. (1969): Hans Jürgen Stammer †. Verh. Zool. Ges. 1969, Zool. Anz., Suppl., 33: 656-657.
* R. Scheucher (1957): Systematik und Ökologie der deutschen Anoetinen. Beiträge zur Systematik und Ökologie mitteleuropäischer Acarina, 1, S. 233-384.
External links
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1899 births
1968 deaths
20th-century German zoologists