Franz Steindachner

Franz Steindachner is a Austrian zoologist , born the November 11th 1834 with Vienna and dead the December 10th 1919 in this same city.

It begins studies of right to the university of Vienna. It is impassioned by the Natural history and one of its professors, the geologist Eduard Suess (1831-1914), initiates it being studied of the Poisson S Fossile S what definitively directs it towards the Ichtyologie.

Steindachner starts with works for the Muséum of natural history of Vienna in 1860, on fish. In 1861, the departure with the retirement of Leopold Fitzinger (1802-1884) enables him to take the station of conservative of fish, the Reptile S and the Amphibien S.

In 1874, it obtains the direction of the department of zoology then the direction of the Natural history museum in 1898, function which it occupies until its death.

Steindachner made of the collection of the Natural history museum of Vienna one of most important of the world. They are consisted of the specimens provided by the officers of the army Austrian and purchases of collection, which it often finances itself. But it organizes and leads also its own forwardings in America, Africa and with the the Middle East. It is rare at its time that the conservatives of the large natural history musea go thus on the ground. It supervises thus a forwarding in Red Sea in 1895 and with the Brésil in 1903. It thus publishes during its career an about sixty articles or works in herpethology.

He works mainly on fish and entrusts the herpetologic collections to Friedrich Siebenrock (1853-1925).

Sources

Kraig Adler (1989). Contributions to the History off Herpetology, Society for the study off amphibians and reptiles: 202 p.
Jean Lescure & Bernard Garff, etymology of the names of Amphibians and reptiles . Belin editions, 2006.

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