Ambrosius Hubrecht, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Ambrosius Hubrecht

Dutch zoologist

Date of Birth: 02-Mar-1853

Place of Birth: Rotterdam, South Holland, Netherlands

Date of Death: 21-Mar-1915

Profession: writer, physician, professor, zoologist, biologist, university teacher, malacologist

Nationality: Kingdom of the Netherlands

Zodiac Sign: Pisces


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About Ambrosius Hubrecht

  • Ambrosius Arnold Willem Hubrecht (2 March 1853, Rotterdam – 21 March 1915, Utrecht) was a Dutch zoologist.
  • Hubrecht studied zoology at Utrecht University with Harting and Donders, for periods joining Selenka in Leiden and later Erlangen, and Gegenbauer in Heidelberg.
  • He graduated magna cum laude with Harting in 1874 with a study on nermertine worms.
  • In 1875–1882 he worked at the Rijksmuseum van Natuurlijke Historie in Leiden, where he was the curator of ichthyology and herpetology, and in 1882 became professor at Utrecht.
  • In 1890–1891 he traveled in Java, Sumatra, and Borneo, where he made embryological studies, notably on the tarsier.
  • He visited the United States in 1896 and 1907.
  • Honorary degrees were conferred on him by Princeton University, the University of St Andrews, the University of Dublin, the University of Glasgow (LL.D 1901), and the University of Giessen. Hubrecht´s most important work was in embryology and placentation of the mammals.
  • In papers in the Quarterly Journal of Microscopial Science in 1883 and 1887 he put forth the theory—also held by Sir E.
  • Ray Lankester—that the vertebrates originated in a Nemertine form, basing this on his discovery in the Nemertines of a continuous nerve sheath.
  • The Descent of the Primates (1897) is the title under which were published his lectures at the sesquicentennial celebration at Princeton.
  • In 1883 he became member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences.
  • Hubrecht founded the Institut Internationale d'Embryologie, today known as the International Society of Developmental Biologists.

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