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ZITTEL, KARL ALFRED VON (1839–1904)
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See also:ZITTEL, KARL See also:ALFRED VON (1839–1904) , See also:German palaeontologist, was See also:born at Bahlingen in See also:Baden on the 25th of See also:September 1839. He was educated at See also:Heidelberg, See also:Paris and See also:Vienna. For a See also:short See also:period he served on the See also:Geological Survey of See also:Austria, and as assistant in the mineralogical museum at Vienna. In 1863 he became teacher of See also:geology and See also:mineralogy in the See also:polytechnic at Carlsruhe, and three years later he succeeded See also:Oppel as See also:professor of palaeontology in the university of See also:Munich, with the See also:charge of the See also:state collection of fossils. In 188o he was appointed to the geological professorship, and eventually to the directorship of the natural See also:history museum of Munich. His earlier See also:work comprised a monograph on the Cretaceous bivalve See also:mollusca of Gosau (1863–66); and an See also:essay on the Tithonian See also:stage (187o), regarded as See also:equivalent to the Purbeck and See also:Wealden formations. In 1873–74 he accompanied the Rohifs expedition to the Libyan See also:desert, the See also:primary results of which were published in Uber den geologischen Bau der libyschen Wiiste (188o), and further details in the Palaeontographica (1883). Dr Zittel was distinguished for his palaeontological researches. From 1869 until the See also:close of his See also:life he was See also:chief editor of the Palaeontographica (founded in 1846 by W. Dunker and H. von See also:Meyer). In 1876 he commenced the publication cf his See also:great work, Handbuch der Palaeontologie, which was completed in 1893 in five volumes, the fifth See also:volume on See also:palaeobotany being prepared by W. P. Schimper and A. Schenk. To make his work as trustworthy as possible Dr Zittel made See also:special studies of each great See also:group, commencing with the fossil See also:sponges, on which he published a monograph (1877–79). In 1895 he issued a See also:summary of his larger work entitled Grundzuge der Palaeontologie (ed. 2, See also:part 1, Invertebrata, revised by Dr Zittel in 1903; the See also:American edition of 1900 by C. R. Eastman is so revised, sometimes in opposition to Zittel's views, as to be practically an See also:independent work). He was author of Aus der Urzeit (1873, ed. 2, 1875); and See also:Die See also:Sahara (1883). In 1899 he published Geschichte der Geologic and Paiaeontologie bis Ende See also:des 19 Jahrhunderis, a monumental history of the progress of geological See also:science (Eng. trans., Mrs Maria M. See also:Ogilvie-See also:Gordon, 1901). Dr Zittel was from 1899 See also:president of the Royal Bavarian See also:Academy of Sciences, and in 1894 he was awarded the See also:Wollaston See also:medal by the Geological Society of See also:London. He died on the 5th of See also:January 1904. Obituary with portrait and bibliography, by Dr F. L. Kitchin, Geol. Mag. (See also:February 1904). I 2 3 4 5 No. I is only used for pas-sages in See also:double notes and for chords. Additional information and CommentsThere are no comments yet for this article.
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