Günther Osche, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Günther Osche

German zoologist (1926–2009)

Date of Birth: 07-Aug-1926

Place of Birth: Neustadt an der Weinstraße, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany

Date of Death: 02-Feb-2009

Profession: zoologist, university teacher

Nationality: Germany

Zodiac Sign: Leo

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.