Bruno Hofer (1861 – 1916) was a German fishery scientist, credited with being the founder of fish pathology. Image File history File links Bruno Hofer, a German fisheries scientist and one of the first fish health specialists. ... 1861 is a common year starting on Tuesday. ... 1916 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia /**/ @import /skins-1. ... A lobster boat unloading its catch in Ilfracombe harbour, North Devon, England A fishery (plural: fisheries) is an organized effort by humans to catch fish or other aquatic species, an activity known as fishing. ...

Career

Hofer was born in East Prussia in 1861, and studied Natural Sciences in Konigsberg followed by a habilitation thesis in Munich, for which he carried out limnologic studies on East Prussian lakes. He obtained a position at the Zoological Institute of Munich as a university lecturer and in 1891 acquired citizenship of the Kingdom of Bavaria. In 1894 he was appointed as a Curator of the Bavarian Museums comparative anatomy collection. In 1896 he became a lecturer for Ichthyology at the veterinary university of Munich. In 1898 he was awarded an extraordinary professorship for Zoology and Ichthyology and the chair of a full professor in 1908. During his career, he was also director of the "Royal Bavarian Research Station for Fisheries" and the "Royal Bavarian Research Station for Fish-Farming", vice-president of the "Bavarian Association of Fishermen" and editor of the magazine "Allgemeine Fischereizeitung". Hofer died in 1916 in Munich at the age of 54. East Prussia (German: Ostpreu en; Polish: Prusy Wschodnie; Russian: Восточная Пруссия — Vostochnaya Prussiya) was a province of Kingdom of Prussia, situated on the territory of former Ducal Prussia. ... The term natural science as the way in which different fields of study are defined is determined as much by historical convention as by the present day meaning of the words. ... Locator map on an international level map of Kaliningrad Oblast Kaliningrad (Russian: Калининград), seaport city, capital and main city of the Kaliningrad Oblast, a small Russian exclave between Poland and Lithuania with access to the Baltic Sea. ... Habilitation is a term used within the university system in Germany, Austria, and some other European countries such as the German-speaking part of Switzerland, in Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary and Slovenia. ... Munich: Frauenkirche and Town Hall steeple Munich (German: München (pronounced listen) is the state capital of the German state of Bavaria. ... Limnology is a discipline that concerns the study of in-land waters (both saline and fresh), specifically lakes, ponds and rivers (both natural and manmade), including their biological, physical, chemical, and hydrological aspects. ... 1891 was a common year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar). ... With an area of 70,553 km² (27,241 square miles) and 12. ... 1894 was a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar). ... Comparative anatomy is the study of similarities and differences in organisms. ... 1896 was a leap year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar). ... 1898 was a common year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar). ... Zoology (Greek zoon = animal and logos = word) is the biological discipline which involves the study of animals. ... Ichthyology is the branch of zoology devoted to the study of fish. ... 1908 is a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will take you to calendar). ...

Publications

Hofer was particularly active in the field of fish parasitology and pathology, and wrote the comprehensive German text on the subject, "Fischkrankheitslehre", as well as his "Handbuch der Fischkrankheiten", "Die Süßwasserfische Mitteleuropas", "Studien zur Krebspest" and more than 200 publications. One of his most significant publications was the taxonomic description of the myxosporean parasite, Myxobolus cerebralis. Hofer is also known for his early work in environmental protection, in particular for the preservation of water quality and drinking-water resources. A parasite is an organism that lives in or on the living tissue of a host organism at the expense of it. ... Orders Bivalvulida Multivalvulida The Myxosporea are a class of microscopic parasites, belonging to the phylum Myxozoa. ... Binomial name Myxobolus cerebralis Hofer, 1903 Synonyms Myxobolus cerebralis is a myxosporean parasite of salmonids (salmon, trout, and their allies) that causes whirling disease in farmed salmon and trout and also in wild fish populations. ...

References

• Götz, Sabine (1998): "Bruno Hofer (1861 - 1916), a life for fisheries and environmental protection." Munich, Univ. of Munich, 268p.

External links

• Dissertation's abstract about Hofer