'''Curt Egon Thesing''' (21 April 1879, Danzig, West Prussia, today's Gdańsk, Poland – 25 May 1956, Bad Tölz, West Germany) was a German zoologist, publisher, populariser of science and translator.
==Life== In 1913 Thesing joined Otto val Halem as partner and managing director of Veit and Comp. Following wartime propaganda collaboration with a German-Austrian publishers' association, Veit & Comp. was incorporated into Walter de Gruyter on 1 January 1919 – despite some political reservations from Thesing, who was on the political left. In May 1920 he withdrew as a partner from the firm for health reasons.<ref>Anne-Katrin Ziesak, Hans-Robert Cram & Kurt-Georg Cram, ''Walter de Gruyter: publishers 1749–1999'', Walter de Gruyter, 1999, pp. 134, 137, 233, 237.</ref>
==Works== ;Authored works * ''Lectures on Biology''. London: John Bale, Sons & Danielsson, 1910. Translated from the 2nd ed. by W. R. Boelter. * ''Stammesgeschichte der Liebe'', Berlin: Brehm, [1932]. Translated by Eden and Cedar Paul as ''Genealogy of love'', London : Routledge, 1933. American edition ''Genealogy of sex: sex in its myriad forms, from the one-celled animal to the human being''. New York: Emerson Books, 1934. * ''Schule der Biologie '', 1934. Translated by Eden and Cedar Paul as ''School of Biology'', London: G. Routledge and sons, Ltd., 1935. ;Translations *(tr. with Marguerite Thesing) ''Mein Leben und Work'' by Henry Ford. Leipzig: Paul List (publisher), 1923. Translated from ''My Life and Work'', New York: Doubleday, Page & Co., 1923 * (tr.) ''Hauptmann Sorrell und sein Sohn: roman'' by Warwick Deeping. Bremen: Schünemann, 1927. Translated from ''Sorrell and Son'', London: Cassell & Co. * (tr. with Wa. Ostwald) ''Und Trotzdem Vorwärts!'' by Henry Ford. Leipzig: Paul List (publisher) 1930. Translated from ''Moving Forwards'' * (tr.) ''Der rote Handel droht! : Der Fortschritt des Fünfjahresplans der Sowjets'' by H. R. Knickerbocker. 1931. Translated from ''Fighting the Red trade menace'' * (tr.) ''Bezwinger des Hungers'' by Paul Henry de Kruif. Berlin: Holle & Co. Verlag, [1934] . Translated from ''Hunger fighters''. * (tr.) ''Frau Buck and ihre Töchter. Roman'' by Warwick Deeping. Bremen: Carl Schünemann, Verlag, [1937]. Translated from ''The Road''.
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==Further reading== * Horst Brasch, ''Lebensdauer. Erinnerung an Curt Thesing, einen deutschen Patrioten und Humanisten'', Berlin (East), 1987 * Andreas Daum, ''Wissenschaftspopularisierung im 19. Jahrhundert. Bürgerliche Kultur, naturwissenschaftliche Bildung und die deutsche Öffentlichkeit 1848–1914'', Munich, 1998, {{pp.|188, 228, 434. 512}}.
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