Dieter Stefan Peters

Dieter Stefan Peters , often cited as DS Peters or D. Stefan Peters, (born June 5, 1932 in Gleiwitz , Upper Silesia ) is a German expert on palaeornithology and ornithology .

Peters came to West Germany from Silesia in 1958. He received his doctorate in zoology from Goethe University Frankfurt am Main in 1961 and worked at the Senckenberg Research Institute from 1964 , where he became curator for ornithology in 1976, was deputy director from 1987 and retired in 1997. In addition, from 1989 he was an adjunct professor of zoology at the University of Frankfurt, where he completed his habilitation in 1979. His successor as curator at the Senckenberg Museum is Gerald Mayr .

He was the first to describe the short-toed nuthatch vanga in 1996 and dealt with both the early evolution of birds ( Archeopteryx , Confuciusornis ) and the bird fauna from the Messel Pit from the Eocene , for example the owls and birds of prey found there. He also wrote popular science books on birds and insects for young people in Otto Maier and Delphin Verlag and on social and philosophical aspects of the theory of evolution. In Grzimek's animal life he wrote the chapter on swallows and in the Brockhaus encyclopedia the articles on ornithology. Peters also published on entomology .

His wife Margarete was the medical director of the Frankfurt Health Department.

Fonts

• Publisher: Acta palaeornithologica. - Courier Research Institute Senckenberg 181, 1995 (3rd Symposium Society of Avian Paleontology and Evolution (SAPE) 1992)
• The Messel birds - a land bird fauna, in: S. Schaal, W. Ziegler (editor) A showcase into the history of the earth and life , Frankfurt am Main: Waldemar Kramer, 1988, pp. 135–151

Web links

• A working life for the Senckenberg Museum , Frankfurter Neue Presse, June 5, 2012
• Ornithology Department, Senckenberg Museum
• Publications

Individual evidence

1. ^ D. Mollenhauer: Senckenberg news: D. Stefan Peters in retirement. In: Natur und Museum, 127 (7), Frankfurt a. Main, July 1, 1997