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Günther Osche

1926 – 2009

German zoologist

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Lived 1926 – 2009 (aged 82). Günther Osche was a German zoologist, university teacher, ecologist and biologist.

Prof.Dr. Guenther Osche on the occasion of the celebration of his 80th birthday, Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany Günther Osche (also spelled Guenther Osche, born 7 August 1926 in Neustadt an der Weinstraße, died 2 February 2009 in Freiburg im Breisgau) was a German evolutionary biologist, ecologist and parasitologist.

He started his career with a research on nematodes having Hans-Jürgen Stammer (1899–1968) as his scientific supervisor. He is known to have raised the name Rhabditides elegans in the subgenus Caenorhabditis in 1952 in the history of the naming of the model worm Caenorhabditis elegans.

Works Articles Systematik und Phylogenie der Gattung Rhabditis (Nematoda). G. Osche, Zool. Jb. (Abt. 1), 81, pages 190–280, 1952 Die Bedeutung der Osmoregulation und des Winkverhaltens für freilebende Nematoden. G. Osche, Zoomorphology, 1952 Bau, Entwicklung und systematische Bedeutung der Cordons der Acuariidae (Nematoda) am Beispiel von Stammerinema soricis (Tiner 1951) gen. nov. G. Osche, Zeitschrift für Parasitenkunde, 1955 Die bursa-und schwanzstrukturen und ihre aberrationen bei den strongylina (Nematoda) morphologische studien zum problem der pluri-und ... G. Osche, Zeitschrift für Morphologie und ökologie der Tiere, 1958

Books Die Welt der Parasiten. Zur Naturgeschichte des Schmarotzertums. 1966 Das "Wesen" der biologischen Evolution. 1973 Evolution. Grundlagen - Erkenntnisse - Entwicklungen der Abstammungslehre. 1979 with von Arno Bogenrieder, Klaus-Günter Collatz, Hans Kössel : Lexikon der Biologie in acht Bänden. 1985

Tributes The genus of nematodes Oscheius is a tribute to Osche.

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University of Erlangen–Nuremberg
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University of Freiburg

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Who was Günther Osche?

German zoologist (1926–2009)

When was Günther Osche born?

Günther Osche was born on 7 August 1926 in Neustadt an der Weinstraße.

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Günther Osche died on 2 February 2009 in Freiburg im Breisgau.

What was Günther Osche's occupation?

Günther Osche was a zoologist, university teacher, ecologist and biologist.

What nationality was Günther Osche?

Günther Osche was German.

Sources & further reading

· Wikipedia: Günther Osche

· Wikidata: Q1307549

· DBpedia: Günther Osche

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