# Curt Thesing

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'''Curt Egon Thesing''' (21 April 1879, [Danzig](/source/Danzig), [West Prussia](/source/West_Prussia), today's Gdańsk, Poland – 25 May 1956, [Bad Tölz](/source/Bad_T%C3%B6lz), 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](/source/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](/source/Eden_Paul) and [Cedar Paul](/source/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](/source/Eden_Paul) and [Cedar Paul](/source/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](/source/Henry_Ford). Leipzig: [Paul List (publisher)](/source/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](/source/Warwick_Deeping). Bremen: Schünemann, 1927. Translated from ''Sorrell and Son'', London: Cassell & Co.
* (tr. with Wa. Ostwald) ''Und Trotzdem Vorwärts!'' by [Henry Ford](/source/Henry_Ford). Leipzig: [Paul List (publisher)](/source/Paul_List_(publisher)) 1930. Translated from ''Moving Forwards''
* (tr.) ''Der rote Handel droht! : Der Fortschritt des Fünfjahresplans der Sowjets'' by [H. R. Knickerbocker](/source/H._R._Knickerbocker). 1931. Translated from ''Fighting the Red trade menace''
* (tr.) ''Bezwinger des Hungers'' by [Paul Henry de Kruif](/source/Paul_Henry_de_Kruif). Berlin: Holle & Co. Verlag, [1934] . Translated from ''Hunger fighters''.
* (tr.) ''Frau Buck and ihre Töchter. Roman'' by [Warwick Deeping](/source/Warwick_Deeping). Bremen: Carl Schünemann, Verlag, [1937]. Translated from ''The Road''.

==References==
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==Further reading==
* Horst Brasch, ''Lebensdauer. Erinnerung an Curt Thesing, einen deutschen Patrioten und Humanisten'', Berlin (East), 1987
* [Andreas Daum](/source/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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