Adolf Zilch
Adolf Zilch (born March 4, 1911 in Offenbach am Main , † January 1, 2006 ) was a German malacologist .
His father was a curator and director of the Natural History Museum in Offenbach. He studied geology, zoology and botany at the Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main from 1931 to 1934 and received his doctorate under Otto zur Strassen (on the question of the ciliated epithelium in arthropods). For 40 years Zilch was the curator of the mollusc collection at the Senckenberg Research Institute , head of its zoological department and deputy director. In 1976 he retired, but worked at the institute on an honorary basis for another 20 years. His successor was Ronald Janssen .
He was president of the German Malacological Society and from 1981 its honorary chairman. He was editor of the Archives for Molluscology. Zilch received the Silver Senckenberg Medal.
He was also a well-known numismatist.
Fonts
- Handbook of Paleozoology. Volume 6: Gastropods. Part 2: Euthyneura , Borntraeger 1959
- with Siegfried Jaeckel: Mollusken, in: Die Tierwelt Mitteleuropas. Volume 2, supplement, source and Meyer 1962
literature
- Ronald Janssen: Adolf Zilch , Archives for Molluscology, Volume 135, 2006, pp. 1–21
- George M. Davis: In memoriam: Adolf M. Zilch 1911-2006 , Malacologia, Volume 49, 2006, 233
Web links
- Ronald Janssen, obituary at the Malacological Society of London (also in Unitas Malacologica)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Zilch, Adolf |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German zoologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 4, 1911 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Offenbach am Main |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 1, 2006 |