Albert Fleischmann (June 28, 1862 – November 19, 1942) was a German zoologist.
Career
Fleischmann was born in Nuremberg, Kingdom of Bavaria. He studied comparative embryology at the University of Erlangen in Bavaria. He obtained his Ph.D. in 1885. He became assistant professor of zoology and comparative anatomy in 1896 and professor in 1898. In 1901, he published a book Die Descendenztheorie which attacked Darwinism, evolution and theories of common descent.
In 1907, Vernon Lyman Kellogg described Fleischmann as the "only biologist of recognized position, of whom I am aware, who publicly declares disbelief in the theory of descent." Palaeontologist William Berryman Scott noted that because of his anti-evolutionary views, Fleischmann was "almost entirely alone in modern biological literature." His anti-evolutionary writings were criticized by biologist August Weismann and zoologist Sinai Tschulok.
Fleischmann married Franziska Kiefl in 1902, they had one son, Rudolf. He was involved in forming Erlangen bee breeding institute in 1907. He was the author of a popular zoology textbook and a book which contained a series of lectures held in 1921–1922 at the University of Erlangen. He retired in 1933.
Publications
- Embryologische Untersuchungen (3 volumes, 1889-1893)
- Lehrbuch der Zoologie. Nach morphogenetischen Gesichtspunkten (1896-1898)
- Die Descendenztheorie (1901)
- Die Darwinsche Theorie (1903)
- Beiträge zur Naturgeschichte der Honigbiene (1910)
- Der Entwicklungsgedanke in der gegenwärtigen Natur- und Geisteswissenschaft (1922)
- Einführung in die Tierkunde (1928)
- The Doctrine of Organic Evolution in the Light of Modern Research (1933)
See also
References
- ^ Debus, Allen G. (1968). World Who's Who in Science: A Biographical Dictionary of Notable Scientists from Antiquity to the Present, Volume 2. Marquis-Who's Who Incorporated. p. 577
- ^ Churchill, Frederick B. (2015). August Weismann: Development, Heredity, and Evolution. Harvard University Press. p. 668. ISBN 978-0-674-73689-4
- Numbers, Ronald L. (2006). The Creationists: From Scientific Creationism to Intelligent Design. Harvard University Press. p. 52. ISBN 0-674-02339-0.
- Kellogg, Vernon L. (1907). Darwinism To-Day. Henry Holt and Company. p. 8
- Scott, William Berryman. (1921). The Theory of Evolution, With Special Reference to the Evidence Upon Which it is Founded. The Macmillan Company. p. 2
- ^ Numbers, Ronald L. (1995). Creationism in Twentieth-Century America: A Ten-Volume Anthology of Documents, 1903–1961. Volume 9: Early Creationist Journals. Garland Publishing. pp. 111-112. ISBN 0-8153-1810-3
