Adolf Remane

Adolf Remane (10 August 1898 – 22 December 1976) was a German zoologist who pioneered the study of the marine meiofauna. He was a director of the Zoological Institute of Kiel University, and a President of the German Zoological Society.

Life Robert Gustav Adolf Remane was born on 10 August 1898 in Krotoszyn, Province of Posen. From 1923 he was a research assistant at the Zoological Institute of Kiel University, where he was named a supernumerary professor in 1929. In 1934 he was appointed to a regular professorship and named as Director of the Zoological Institute of the Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg. In 1936, he took on the leadership of the Zoological Institute and Museum in Kiel, where he founded the Institut für Meereskunde at Kitzeberg on the Kieler Förde in 1937. As a board member, he co-signed a letter dated 27 July 1942 addressed to the Reich Chancellery, expressly endorsing the Nazi measures against Judaism. His later work was on theoretical topics such as phylogenetics and comparative anatomy, in which he developed criteria for homology which are still used today. With Volker Storch and Ulrich Welsch he wrote the standard textbooks Kurzes Lehrbuch der Zoologie (1972) and Systematische Zoologie (1976), which have been reissued in several new editions.

Memberships

Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina (1935) Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur, Mainz (1949) Finnish Society of Sciences and Letters (1956) Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences (1960)

Works

Die Grundlagen des natürlichen Systems, der vergleichenden Anatomie und der Phylogenetik. Leipzig: Geest & Portig K.-G., 1952 (2nd ed. 1956, reprint of 2nd ed. by Verlag Otto Koeltz, Koenigstein/Taunus 1971) Das soziale Leben der Tiere. Hamburg: Rowohlt, 1960 (In: Rowohlts deutsche Enzyklopädie 97) Adolf Remane et al.: Systematische Zoologie. Stämme des Tierreichs. Stuttgart: G. Fischer Verlag, 1976. Adolf Remane, Volker Storch, Ulrich Welsch: Kurzes Lehrbuch der Zoologie. Stuttgart and New York: Fischer, 1985, ISBN 3437203371 (and other editions)