Arnold Spuler


Arnold Spuler was a German physician, an entomologist and a politician.

Biography

After attending the gymnasium in Karlsruhe, Spuler was drafted in the 30th Regiment of Field Artillery of Baden from 1887 to 1888.
He then studied natural sciences and medicine in Freiburg im Breisgau and Berlin. In 1891 he graduated and in 1893 he was qualified to practice as a physician.
In the autumn of the same year he became assistant of the Institute of Anatomy at the University of Erlangen. In 1896 he obtained the libera docenza and in 1903 he became an extraordinary professor.
From 1914 to 1918 he took part in the First World War as a medical officer. After the war he enrolled in the German National People's Party. In 1920 he became full professor of histology and ontogenesis at the University of Erlangen. From 1920 to 1924 he was deputy of his party in the Bavarian Parliament and from December 1924 to May 1928 in the National Parliament of the Weimar Republic, where he represented his constituency.

Scientific activity

Spuler wrote treatises on anatomy, ontogeny, biology and zoology, and books on Lepidoptera. The multi-volume work Die Schmetterlinge Europas of 1908 was for decades a standard in the study of Lepidoptera.

Works