Günther Osche Explained

Günther Osche (also spelled Guenther Osche, born 7 August 1926 in Neustadt an der Weinstraße, died 2 February 2009 in Freiburg im Breisgau) was a German evolutionary biologist, ecologist and parasitologist.

He started his career with a research on nematodes having Hans-Jürgen Stammer (1899-1968) as his scientific supervisor. He is known to have raised the name Rhabditides elegans in the subgenus Caenorhabditis in 1952 in the history of the naming of the model worm Caenorhabditis elegans.

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The genus of nematodesOscheius is a tribute to G. Osche.