Albert Fleischmann

Albert Fleischmann (June 28, 1862 – November 19, 1942) was a German zoologist.

Career

Fleischmann was born in Nuremberg, Kingdom of Bavaria.[1] He studied comparative embryology at the University of Erlangen in Bavaria.[2] He obtained his Ph.D. in 1885.[1] He became assistant professor of zoology and comparative anatomy in 1896 and professor in 1898. In 1901, he published a book Die Descendenztheorie which attacked Darwinism, evolution and theories of common descent.[3]

In 1907, Vernon Lyman Kellogg described Fleischmann as the "only biologist of recognized position, of whom I am aware, who publicly declares disbelief in the theory of descent."[4] Palaeontologist William Berryman Scott noted that because of his anti-evolutionary views, Fleischmann was "almost entirely alone in modern biological literature."[5] His anti-evolutionary writings were criticized by biologist August Weismann and zoologist Sinai Tschulok.[2][6]

Fleischmann married Franziska Kiefl in 1902, they had one son, Rudolf. He was involved in forming Erlangen bee breeding institute in 1907.[1] He was the author of a popular zoology textbook and a book which contained a series of lectures held in 1921–1922 at the University of Erlangen.[6] He retired in 1933.[1]

Publications

• Embryologische Untersuchungen (3 volumes, 1889-1893)
• Lehrbuch der Zoologie. Nach morphogenetischen Gesichtspunkten (1896-1898)
• Die Descendenztheorie (1901)
• Die Darwinsche Theorie (1903)
• Beiträge zur Naturgeschichte der Honigbiene (1910) [with Theodor Weippl and Enoch Zander]
• Der Entwicklungsgedanke in der gegenwärtigen Natur- und Geisteswissenschaft (1922)
• Einführung in die Tierkunde (1928)
• The Doctrine of Organic Evolution in the Light of Modern Research (1933)

See also

• Otto Kleinschmidt

References

1. Debus, Allen G. (1968). World Who's Who in Science: A Biographical Dictionary of Notable Scientists from Antiquity to the Present, Volume 2. Marquis-Who's Who Incorporated. p. 577
2. Churchill, Frederick B. (2015). August Weismann: Development, Heredity, and Evolution. Harvard University Press. p. 668. ISBN 978-0-674-73689-4
3. Numbers, Ronald L. (2006). The Creationists: From Scientific Creationism to Intelligent Design. Harvard University Press. p. 52. ISBN 0-674-02339-0.
4. Kellogg, Vernon L. (1907). Darwinism To-Day. Henry Holt and Company. p. 8
5. Scott, William Berryman. (1921). The Theory of Evolution, With Special Reference to the Evidence Upon Which it is Founded. The Macmillan Company. p. 2
6. Numbers, Ronald L. (1995). Creationism in Twentieth-Century America: A Ten-Volume Anthology of Documents, 1903–1961. Volume 9: Early Creationist Journals. Garland Publishing. pp. 111-112. ISBN 0-8153-1810-3

External links

• Works by Albert Fleischmann at the Biodiversity Heritage Library