Hans Leo Przibram
Hans Leo Przibram | |
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Austro-Hungarian Empire | |
Scientific career | |
Fields | developmental biology |
Institutions | Biological Research Institute of the Vienna Academy of Sciences |
Doctoral students | Paul Alfred Weiss |
Hans Leo Przibram [ˈpʃɪbram] (7 July 1874 – 20 May 1944) was an
Career
Hans was as elder son of Gustav and Charlotte Przibram.[1] His mother was the daughter of Friedrich Schey von Koromla.
After attending the
In 1902, together with the botanists Leopold von Portheim and Wilhelm Figdor, Hans Przibram bought the "Vivarium" in the Vienna Prater and set up a private research institute for experimental biology, the "Biologische Versuchsanstalt" (BVA), which opened in the following year. In 1914, the BVA donated to the Academy of Sciences in Vienna, together with a foundation that ensured continued operations. Przibram continued to lead the zoological department and, together with Portheim, the entire BVA. The University of Halle appointed Hans Przibram an honorary doctorate in 1917, followed in 1929 by an honorary doctorate from the University of Riga.
Being Jewish, he was persecuted under
Evolution
Przibram was an advocate of orthogenesis. He proposed a theory known as "apogenesis". Science historian Igor Popov has noted that Przibram "rejected both the transformation of one species into another and the existence of genealogical trees. He believed that the major animal groups evolved in parallel rows, considering this process as analogous to the growth of crystals."[2]
He was a critic of natural selection and neo-Darwinism.[3]
References
- ^ a b "Ober St. Viet". 1133.at. Retrieved 3 August 2015.
- ISBN 978-3-319-95143-0
- ISBN 978-3-319-69121-3