Carl Erich Franz Joseph Correns (* 19 September 1864 in Munich; "† 14 February 1933 in Berlin) was a German biologist and one the rediscoverer of the Mendel rules.

Life and working

Carl Correns was born as a son of a painter. Since it had already early lost its two parents, it spent its main school time in pc. Gallen in Switzerland.

Correns studied Botanik, chemistry and physics at the Universities of Munich and Graz and became 1889 in Hamburg with Carl William of with a work over the thickness growth from alga cell walls to the Dr. phil. attained a doctorate. Afterwards it was an assistant with God-dear Haberlandt in Botani Institut of the University of Graz, with Simon Schwendener at the University of Berlin as well as with William pepper at the University of Leipzig.

1892 he becomes private lecturer in Botanik at the University of and begins in the year 1894 in the same Botani garden, where Leonhart fox already in 16. Century a Hortus Medicus had created, with plant crossings, which led to the Wiederentdeckung of the Mendel rules. It recognized when its investigations the fact that not all characteristics are coupled with one another combinably freely with one another, but some and with it always together is left.

Correns continued to work on problems of the sex transformation at plants. It succeeded to it to prove the chromosomale sex transformation.

With his work Carl Correns applies together with Erich von Tschermak Seysenegg, Hugo de Vries and William Bateson, which were encountered the Mendel rules together with him, as a founder of the modern leaving laws.

1902 he becomes an extraordinary professor at the University of Leipzig and 1909 full professor at the University of where he leads the Botani garden

Starting from 1914 Correns becomes a first director of the institute for emperor William for biology in Berlin Dahlem, where he worked up to his death. Apart from this activity Correns was a fee professor at the University of Berlin.

Together with Erwin Baur, Eugen Fischer, Richard Goldschmidt and Ernst Ruedin promoted Carl Correns the 1933 establishment of the institute for emperor William for anthropology, human hereditary teachings and Eugenik, in which (after Correns death), taken place, among the national socialists the "“race research"” formed an emphasis.

Sources

• Karl farm servant woman (1991): History of the Botanik. G. Fischer
• Ilse Jahn (2000): History of biology. Spectrum
• Ute dyke man (1995): Biologist under Hitler. S. Fischer

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