Life

Max Carl Anton was born as a son of the former director of circle court Karl and Hermine (geb. Gumprecht) on 30 January 1846 in Wittenberg. To Jena took up a study of the natural sciences, which he continued in Berlin and daselbst 1869 with a zoo-logical work attained a doctorate. By a Assistenzstelle with Carl Gegenbaur in Jena it was animated still to the study of the medicine. It followed it 1873, as this a call to Heidelberg also noticed and habilitierte 1877 for anatomy, 1879 the extra full professor was appointed. Likewise it received an appointment to 1873 as a full professor to Amsterdam, received to 1888 the chair for anatomy at the university in Jena and became 1901 director of the anatomical institute of the University of Heidelberg. 1912 it stepped into the retirement and deceased to 6. March 1920 in Heidelberg.

Under the influence of Carl Gegenbaur busy itself with evolutionary work (formation of the kidneys). When it near-went to its task, it was equipped on the most thorough with all knowledge, which was necessary for the evaluation of the past attempts of a classification of the birds. It was a comparative Anatom, which had sharpened its judgement of on rich experiences and had accomplished in toilsome detailed work a quantity of investigations, above all also such, which seemed still necessary for clarifying genealogischer questions. None before it, and one may probably say no after it, the characteristics usable for classification so completely arranged and their phylogenetische priority out as carefully weighed as it, which remained itself conscious the connections between form and function all time. The pitfalls, those "„isomorphisms"” that is called the morphologic agreements, which place themselves to the Systematiker secondarily resulted from same functional effect, is it therefore carefully evaded. It was likewise with the feature trusts, which is called today "„allometrisches growth"”.

Its monumental Hauptwerk "„investigations to the morphology and systematics of the birds"” is based on thorough comparative studies of the chest, shoulder and wing region of the whole bird class and led with consideration from and animal-geographical facts to new realizations across the master history of the birds and to the list, into the creating gene also today still valid systematics of the birds. Among other things the proof succeeded that "„the flat chest birds"” (Ratiten, e.g. Bunch) into a quite heterogeneous complex became secondarily flight unable.

Its system is more finely arranged, by introduction by four higher categories (Ordo, Subordo, gene, Familia), than that its predecessor, whereby the category "„of the gene width unit corresponds"” to the orders of other authors. Its bundlings of the gene width unit to 24 subordinations and this are from an increasingly hypothetical character to 7 orders.

From numerous other work, is only its Monographie over those spino occipitalen here nerves emphasized. is considered as a general agent of the school Gegenbaurs, to which he dedicated a detailed biography (1903).

Literature

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• "“The bones and muscles of the extremities with the queue-similar Sauriern "“1870
• "„Investigations to the morphology and systematics of the birds"” (2 volumes) 1888
• "„To the development of the amphibian kidney "“1877
• "„Over the occipitalen nerves D. Selachier and Holocephalen and their comparative morphology "“in the anniversary publication for Carl Gegenbaur III, 1897, P. 351-768
• "„To systematics and genealogy of the reptiles "“contribution 1900
• "„To the question of the descent of the mammals "“1904
• "„Those spino occipitalen nerves "“
• "„To the comparative anatomy of the Schultermuskeln and the chest shoulder apparatus"” (five volumes)
• "„Morphologic points of issue"”

Used literature

• "„New German bibliography "“volume 5, P. 690
• * "„famous personalities and their connection to Wittenberg "“of Heinrich bold one and Heinz motel appeared with the pressure house day sheet GmbH & CO 1990 ISBN 3-924781-17-6
• "„The development of the Ornithologie "“of Erwin Stresemann appeared with F.W. Peter/Berlin W15 1951 page 239

Resuming literature

• "„Which we owe Ernst Haeckel "“from H. Schmidt 1914 page 335-350
• "„German medical weekly revue "“46 of H. Braus 1920, S.470;
• "„Anatomical indicator "“55 of H. Bluntschli 1922, page 244-255 (W-listing P);
• History of the medical faculty of the Friedrich Schiller university Jena, of E. Giese and B. of Hagen 1958, page 468-471;
• "„DBJ "“II (Ti. 1920, L) by Fischer
• "„New German bibliography "“volume 2, page 562
• "„Encyclopedia of the scientists "“

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