Franz Martin Hilgendorf
Franz Martin Hilgendorf was a German zoologist and paleontologist. Hilgendorfs research on fossil snails from the Steinheim crater in the early 1860s became a palaeontological evidence for the theory of evolution published by Charles Darwin in 1859.
Franz Hilgendorf was born onDecember 1839 in Neudamm . Between 1851 and 1854 he went to a gymnasium in Knigsberg and later to the Gymnasium Zum Grauen Kloster in Berlin where he graduated in 1858. In 1859 he started studying philology at the University of Berlin. After four semesters he changed to the University of Tbingen. In the summer of 1862 he joined an excavation by Friedrich August Quenstedt in the Steinheim crater. In 1863 Hilgendorf received his Ph.D. for work related to this excavation. He finished his research on the fossils during his time at the Museum fr Naturkunde in Berlin. in 1868 Hilgendorf became director of the aquarium of the Zoological Garden of Hamburg and in 1870 and 1871 he worked as librarian at the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina. In 1873 Hilgendorf was appointed lecturer at the Imperial Medical Academy Tokyo. He stayed in Japan from 1873 till 1876 and published articles and collected several specimens of Japanese fauna. Hilgendorf returned to Germ
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