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Life

Von Ubisch was a professor of zoology at the University of Münster from 1927 to 1935. He was then fired because his mother was Jewish. In 1945, he declined an offer to return to his chair. He had one sister, Gerta, who was born in Metz on 3 October 1882, and died in 1965. She lectured on genetics in Heidelberg.

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{{Authority control 1886 births 1965 deaths German paleontologists 20th-century German zoologists Academic staff of the University of Münster