Max Auerbach (26 January 1879 in

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– 21 November 1968 in Karlsruhe-Durlach) was a German

zoologist Zoology ( , ) is the scientific study of animals. Its studies include the structure, embryology, classification, habits, and distribution of all animals, both living and extinct, and how they interact with their ecosystems. Zoology is one ...

known for his research of

Cnidospora Cnidospora is a defunct subphylum of microscopic spore-forming parasites in the defunct phylum Protozoa. The subphylum was divided into two classes, the Myxosporidea (now classified as higher-animals, i.e. Metazoa) and the Microsporidea (now clas ...

. From 1897 to 1902, he studied medicine and zoology at the

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, where following graduation, he served as an assistant to Friedrich Zschokke (1860–1936). Soon afterwards, he obtained his

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in zoology and

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at the Technischen Hochschule Karlsruhe (1904). In Karlsruhe, he gave lectures at the technical school (until 1934) and also at the ''Hochschule der Bildenden Künste Karlsruhe'' (1926–1945). In 1918 he was named director of the ''Badische Landessammlungen für Naturkunde'' (Baden State Collections of Natural History), and during the following year, founded the ''Anstalt für Bodenseeforschung der Stadt Konstanz'' (Max Auerbach Institute) in

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Selected works

* ''Bemerkungen über Myxosporidien'', 1909 – Comments on

Myxosporidia Myxosporea is a class of microscopic animals, all of whom are parasites. They belong to the Myxozoa clade within Cnidaria. They have a complex life cycle that comprises vegetative forms in two hosts—one an aquatic invertebrate (generally an ann ...

. * ''Die Cnidosporidien (Myxosporidien, Actinomyxidien, Microsporidien)'', 1910 –

(Myxosporidia, Actinomyxidia,

Microsporidia Microsporidia are a group of spore-forming unicellular parasites. These spores contain an extrusion apparatus that has a coiled polar tube ending in an anchoring disc at the apical part of the spore.Franzen, C. (2005). How do Microsporidia inva ...

). * ''Fischereibiologische Untersuchungen am Bodensee'', 1920 – Ichthyo-biological investigations at

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References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Auerbach, Max 1879 births 1968 deaths University of Basel alumni Academic staff of the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology Scientists from Wuppertal 20th-century German zoologists German microbiologists German parasitologists Recipients of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany