Friedrich Siebenrock

Friedrich Siebenrock is a Austrian zoologist , born the January 20th 1853 with Schörfling close to Attersee in Austria and dead the January 28th 1925 in this same city.

After its studies with Innsbruck and Vienna, he is demonstrator during many years at the institute of zoology of the university of Vienna under the direction of Carl Bernhard Brühl (1820-1899).

As from January 1886, it works voluntarily with the Muséum of natural history of Vienna. In December of the same year, he becomes the assistant of Franz Steindachner (1834-1919). In 1895, it becomes preserving collections of vertebrate inferiors. In 1919, it replaces Steindachner with the head of the department of Herpétologie. It constitutes a collection of comparative anatomy made up of skeletons of reptiles and Amphibians single with the world.

He also studies the collections assembled by Viktor Pietschmann (1881-1956) in Mésopotamie and with the Kurdistan, by Alfred Voeltzkow (1860-1947) in and East Africa Rudolf Grauer (1870-1927) with the Belgian Congo.

In 1895 then in 1897, it accompanies the Steindachner director during the first and the second Austrian forwarding in Red Sea.

After the death of Steindachner, Siebenrock directs the collections with the assistance of Pietschmann and Otto von Wettstein Ritter von Westersheim (1892-1967). In 1920, this last will become the only administrator about it after the departure with the withdrawal of Siebenrock. He dies in a great poverty a few years later.

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