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.
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 intoWalter 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.[1]
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 byEden andCedar Paul asGenealogy of love, London : Routledge, 1933. American editionGenealogy 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 byEden andCedar Paul asSchool of Biology, London: G. Routledge and sons, Ltd., 1935.
Translations
(tr. with Marguerite Thesing)Mein Leben und Work byHenry Ford. Leipzig:Paul List (publisher), 1923. Translated fromMy Life and Work, New York: Doubleday, Page & Co., 1923
(tr.)Hauptmann Sorrell und sein Sohn: roman byWarwick Deeping. Bremen: Schünemann, 1927. Translated fromSorrell and Son, London: Cassell & Co.
(tr.)Der rote Handel droht! : Der Fortschritt des Fünfjahresplans der Sowjets byH. R. Knickerbocker. 1931. Translated fromFighting the Red trade menace
(tr.)Bezwinger des Hungers byPaul Henry de Kruif. Berlin: Holle & Co. Verlag, [1934] . Translated fromHunger fighters.
(tr.)Frau Buck and ihre Töchter. Roman byWarwick Deeping. Bremen: Carl Schünemann, Verlag, [1937]. Translated fromThe Road.
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, p. 188, 228, 434. 512.
