Przibram, Hans#
b. Lainz near Vienna, July 7, 1874, d. Theresienstadt concentration camp (Terezín, Czech Republic), spring 1944, zoologist. university professor in Vienna, 1906 with L. von Portheim and W. Figdor founded the biological research institute in the Vienna Prater park ("Vivarium"), which was exemplary as a research centre for experimental zoology (destroyed in 1945). Constructed chambers with a constant temperature and introduced a new method of "autophoric" transplantation. 1939 emigrated to Amsterdam, from where he was deported to the concentration camp.
Works#
Experimental-Zoologie, 7 vols., 1907-1930; Anorganische Grenzgebiete der Biologie, 1926.