Leopold Heinrich Fischer

Who was Leopold Heinrich Fischer?

Leopold Heinrich Fischer was a German zoologist and mineralogist . He was the son of d’Aloys Fischer. He studied medicine at Fribourg-en-Brisgau but also at Vienna. Fischer practised medicine in Freiburg-in-Brisgau and from 1845 taught zoology and mineralogy there. Initially an assistant, he became a professor in 1859. His most significant works are:

Orthoptera Europaea

Clavis der Silicate

Chronologischer Überblick über die allmalige Einführung der Mikroskopie in das Studium der Mineralogie, Petrographie und Paläontologie

Kritische mikroscopy Studien

Nephrit und Jadeit nach ihren mineralogischen Eigenschaften, sowie nach ihrer urgerschichtlishen und ethnographischen Bedeutung

and many other scientific articles.

He was one of the best specialists in the classification of insects of his time. After much research in geology, he devoted himself to the study of the prehistoric people and studied stone tools from an evolutionary point of view and also their geographical distribution. His collections are in the Naturhistorisches Museum in Vienna.