Curt Egon Thesing (21 April 1879, Danzig,

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, today's Gdańsk, Poland – 25 May 1956,

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, West Germany) was a German zoologist, publisher, populariser of science and translator.

Life

In 1913 Thesing joined Otto val Halem as partner and managing director of Veit and Comp. Following wartime propaganda collaboration with a German-Austrian publishers' association, Veit & Comp. was incorporated into

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on 1 January 1919 – despite some political reservations from Thesing, who was on the political left. In May 1920 he withdrew as a partner from the firm for health reasons.Anne-Katrin Ziesak, Hans-Robert Cram & Kurt-Georg Cram, ''Walter de Gruyter: publishers 1749–1999'', Walter de Gruyter, 1999, pp. 134, 137, 233, 237.

Works

;Authored works * ''Lectures on Biology''. London: John Bale, Sons & Danielsson, 1910. Translated from the 2nd ed. by W. R. Boelter. * ''Stammesgeschichte der Liebe'', Berlin: Brehm,

932 Year 932 (Roman numerals, CMXXXII) was a leap year starting on Sunday of the Julian calendar. Events By place Europe * Summer – Alberic II of Spoleto, Alberic II leads an uprising at Rome against his stepfather Hugh of Italy, Hu ...

Translated by Eden and

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as ''Genealogy of love'', London : Routledge, 1933. American edition ''Genealogy of sex: sex in its myriad forms, from the one-celled animal to the human being''. New York: Emerson Books, 1934. * ''Schule der Biologie '', 1934. Translated by Eden and

as ''School of Biology'', London: G. Routledge and sons, Ltd., 1935. ;Translations *(tr. with Marguerite Thesing) ''Mein Leben und Work'' by

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. Leipzig: Paul List (publisher), 1923. Translated from ''My Life and Work'', New York: Doubleday, Page & Co., 1923 * (tr.) ''Hauptmann Sorrell und sein Sohn: roman'' by Warwick Deeping. Bremen: Schünemann, 1927. Translated from ''Sorrell and Son'', London: Cassell & Co. * (tr.) ''Der rote Handel droht! : Der Fortschritt des Fünfjahresplans der Sowjets'' by H. R. Knickerbocker. 1931. Translated from ''Fighting the Red trade menace'' * (tr.) ''Bezwinger des Hungers'' by Paul Henry de Kruif. Berlin: Holle & Co. Verlag, 934. Translated from ''Hunger fighters''. * (tr.) ''Frau Buck and ihre Töchter. Roman'' by Warwick Deeping. Bremen: Carl Schünemann, Verlag,

937 Year 937 ( CMXXXVII) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Julian calendar. Events By place Europe * A Hungarian army invades Burgundy, and burns the city of Tournus. Then they go southwards to Italy, pillaging the environs of ...

Translated from ''The Road''.

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