Otto Egon Lowenstein
Otto Egon Lowenstein FRSE (1906–1999) was a German-born zoologist. He did extensive studies on the labyrinth of the ears of fish.
Life
[edit]He was born in Munich on 24 October 1906, to a Jewish family.[1] He studied Sciences at the University of Munich. He was taught Zoology by Karl von Frisch. He continued to postgraduate level gaining a PhD in 1932.[2]
In 1933 he left Germany and went to Britain. He began as a research student at the University of Birmingham, gaining a second PhD in 1937. In that year he took a post as Assistant Lecturer in Zoology at Exeter University. In 1938 he went to Glasgow University as a Lecturer under Prof Edward Hindle. In 1952 he was given a professorship at the University of Birmingham.[3]
He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 1947. His proposers were Maurice Yonge, Charles Wynford Parsons, John Walton and George Wyburn. In 1955 he was also elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of London.[4]
He retired in 1974. He died on 31 January 1999.
Family
[edit]In 1937, he married Elsa Ritter. He secondly married Gunilla Dohlman (d.1981). He finally (aged 80) married Maureen McKernan in 1986.
References
[edit]- ^ Ute Deichmann, Biologists Under Hitler, Harvard University Press (1996), p. 42
- ^ "University of Glasgow :: Story :: Biography of Otto Egon Lowenstein".
- ^ The Independent (newspaper): Obituary 22 February 1999
- ^ Biographical Index of Former Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 1783–2002 (PDF). The Royal Society of Edinburgh. July 2006. ISBN 0-902-198-84-X. Archived from the original (PDF) on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 2 June 2017.
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