About Curt Thesing
Lived 1879 – 1956 (aged 77). Curt Thesing was a German journalist, author, translator, zoologist, naturalist and publisher.
Curt Egon Thesing (21 April 1879, Danzig, West Prussia, today's Gdańsk, Poland – 25 May 1956, Bad Tölz, West Germany) was a German zoologist, publisher, populariser of science and translator.
Life In 1913 Thesing joined Otto val Halem as partner and managing director of Veit and Comp. Following wartime propaganda collaboration with a German-Austrian publishers' association, Veit & Comp. was incorporated into Walter de Gruyter on 1 January 1919 – despite some political reservations from Thesing, who was on the political left. In May 1920 he withdrew as a partner from the firm for health reasons.
Works Authored works Lectures on Biology. London: John Bale, Sons & Danielsson, 1910. Translated from the 2nd ed. by W. R. Boelter. Stammesgeschichte der Liebe, Berlin: Brehm. Translated by Eden and Cedar Paul as Genealogy of love, London : Routledge, 1933. American edition Genealogy of sex: sex in its myriad forms, from the one-celled animal to the human being. New York: Emerson Books, 1934. Schule der Biologie , 1934. Translated by Eden and Cedar Paul as School of Biology, London: G. Routledge and sons, Ltd., 1935.
Translations (tr. with Marguerite Thesing) Mein Leben und Work by Henry Ford. Leipzig: Paul List (publisher), 1923. Translated from My Life and Work, New York: Doubleday, Page & Co., 1923 (tr.) Hauptmann Sorrell und sein Sohn: roman by Warwick Deeping. Bremen: Schünemann, 1927. Translated from Sorrell and Son, London: Cassell & Co. (tr. with Wa. Ostwald) Und Trotzdem Vorwärts! by Henry Ford. Leipzig: Paul List (publisher) 1930. Translated from Moving Forwards (tr.) Der rote Handel droht! : Der Fortschritt des Fünfjahresplans der Sowjets by H. R. Knickerbocker. 1931. Translated from Fighting the Red trade menace (tr.) Bezwinger des Hungers by Paul Henry de Kruif. Berlin: Holle & Co. Verlag. Translated from Hunger fighters. (tr.) Frau Buck and ihre Töchter. Roman by Warwick Deeping. Bremen: Carl Schünemann, Verlag. Translated from The Road.
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Who was Curt Thesing?
German zoologist (1879-1956)
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Curt Thesing was born on 21 April 1879 in Gdańsk.
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Curt Thesing died on 25 May 1956 in Bad Tölz.
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Curt Thesing was a journalist, author, translator, zoologist, naturalist and publisher.
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Curt Thesing was German.
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