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Obituary: Claus Nielsen 1938–2024
Frontiers in Zoology ( IF 2.6 ) Pub Date : 2024-03-12 , DOI: 10.1186/s12983-024-00528-0
Jürgen Heinze , Ulrich Technau

Few scholars have left a deep and remaining influence on generations of zoologists. One of them is certainly Claus Nielsen, who recently passed away at the age of 85 years. Claus Nielsen was on the editorial board of Frontiers in Zoology, the journal of the German Zoological Society, for the last 20 years, since 2003. On behalf of the whole Editorial board and the publisher team, we would like to acknowledge the many years of commitment of Claus to our journal.

Claus was born in Copenhagen in 1938, and has for almost all his life studied and worked in Copenhagen. He obtained his Dr. Phil. in 1972 at the University of Copenhagen with a work on entoprocts, for which he became one of the world specialists. After several years of working as a lecturer and Associate Professor at the Zoological Museum in Copenhagen and the University of Copenhagen, he became Professor of Evolutionary Invertebrate Embryology in 2005. At the Zoological Museum, he served as a curator of entoprocts, ectoprocts, phoronids, brachiopods, pterobranchs, enteropneusts as well as later of urochordates and echinoderms.

Claus Nielsen had a world-wide recognition as an expert of marine invertebrates, with a strong interest in ciliary larvae, their evolutionary origin and relationships. Based on his thorough knowledge on all developmental forms of marine invertebrates, he was convinced that the common ancestor of Bilateria evolved from such ciliary larvae. His book “Animal Evolution: Interrelationships of the Living Phyla” published by Oxford University Press in 1995 was a guide and standard textbook for many evolutionary biologists and zoologists for several decades and remains influential up to this day. Claus received many honors, among them the prestigious Alexander Kovalevsky medal of the St. Petersburg Society of Naturalists (2001). In 2006 he became a foreign member of the Linnean Society of London and received the Linnean Medal for Zoology in 2015. He was an honorary member of the Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology and of the International Society for Invertebrate Morphology. He served in many academic committees and review panels. What is more, he was a fantastic, inspiring teacher in numerous field courses at marine stations, where his enthusiasm and witty charm has inspired and motivated generations of students. I also witnessed his tireless fascination and love for marine organisms, as well as his humor in practical courses taught to international Ph.D. students at the Marine station in Kristineberg, Sweden. His spirit, his scholarship and his friendly nature will be missed.

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Jürgen Heinze
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讣告：克劳斯·尼尔森 1938–2024

很少有学者能够对几代动物学家留下深刻而持久的影响。克劳斯·尼尔森 (Claus Nielsen) 无疑是其中之一，他最近去世，享年 85 岁。自 2003 年起，克劳斯·尼尔森 (Claus Nielsen) 连续 20 年担任德国动物学会期刊《Frontiers in Zoology》的编辑委员会成员。我们谨代表整个编辑委员会和出版商团队，感谢多年来克劳斯对我们期刊的承诺。

克劳斯 1938 年出生于哥本哈根，几乎一生都在哥本哈根学习和工作。他获得了菲尔博士。1972 年，他在哥本哈根大学进行了一项有关内肛的研究，并因此成为世界专家之一。在哥本哈根动物博物馆和哥本哈根大学担任讲师和副教授几年后，他于 2005 年成为进化无脊椎动物胚胎学教授。在动物博物馆，他担任内肛动物、外肛动物、弗洛尼德动物、腕足动物、翼鳃动物、肠肺动物以及后来的尾索动物和棘皮动物。

克劳斯·尼尔森是世界公认的海洋无脊椎动物专家，他对纤毛幼虫、其进化起源和关系有着浓厚的兴趣。基于他对海洋无脊椎动物所有发育形式的透彻了解，他确信双边对称动物的共同祖先是从这种纤毛幼虫进化而来的。他于1995年由牛津大学出版社出版的《动物进化：活体门的相互关系》一书几十年来一直是许多进化生物学家和动物学家的指南和标准教科书，至今仍然具有影响力。克劳斯获得了许多荣誉，其中包括著名的圣彼得堡博物学家协会亚历山大·科瓦列夫斯基奖章（2001年）。2006年，他成为伦敦林奈学会的外籍会员，并于2015年获得林奈动物学奖章。他是综合与比较生物学学会和国际无脊椎动物形态学学会的荣誉会员。他曾在许多学术委员会和评审小组中任职。更重要的是，他在海洋站的众多实地课程中都是一位出色的、鼓舞人心的老师，他的热情和诙谐的魅力启发和激励了一代又一代的学生。我也见证了他对海洋生物孜孜不倦的迷恋和热爱，以及他在为国际博士教授的实践课程中的幽默。瑞典克里斯蒂娜贝格海军陆战队站的学生。他的精神、他的学识和他的友善天性将被人们怀念。

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