Franz Martin Hilgendorf

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1839 – 1904

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Who was Franz Martin Hilgendorf?

Franz Martin Hilgendorf was a German zoologist and paleontologist. Hilgendorf's research on fossil snails from the Steinheim crater in the early 1860s became a palaeontological evidence for the theory of evolution published by Charles Darwin in 1859.

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Born
Dec 5, 1839
Dębno
Nationality
  • Germany
Died
Jul 5, 1904
Berlin

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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