Ambrosius Arnold Willem Hubrecht
1853–1915
Dutch zoologist. Studied at the Polytechnic School, Delft, 1869–70; from 1870, studied zoology at Utrecht, Leiden, Erlangen, and Heidelberg. PhD (Utrecht) on the anatomy, histology, and developmental history of some Nemertea, 1874. Curator of fish at the Rijksmuseum of Natural History, Leiden, 1875–82. Professor of zoology and comparative anatomy, Utrecht, 1882–1910; professor extraordinarius of comparative embryology, 1910–15. Founded the Institut International d’Embryologie (now the International Society of Developmental Biologists) in 1911.
Sources
DSB
Embryology History - Ambrosius Hubrecht, https://embryology.med.unsw.edu.au/embryology/index.php/Embryology_History_-_Ambrosius_Hubrecht (accessed 1 May 2018)
Huygens ING, http://resources.huygens.knaw.nl/bwn1880-2000/lemmata/bwn1/hubrecht (accessed 24 April 2018)
Bibliography
DSB: Dictionary of scientific biography. Edited by Charles Coulston Gillispie and Frederic L. Holmes. 18 vols. including index and supplements. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons. 1970–90.
