Theodor Wolf
Geologist, Deceased Person
1841 – 1924
Who was Theodor Wolf?
Theodor Wolf was a German naturalist who studied the Galápagos Islands during the late nineteenth century. Wolf Island is named after him. The wolf volcano on Isabela Island was also named after him. He was born at Bartholomä.
He published his Ein Besuch der Galápagos-Inseln, Sammlung von Vortraegen fuer das deutsche Volk in 1892. His observations also include notes on the human population on the islands.
He had performed a geologic survey of mainland Ecuador, but unfortunately his collections were lost in storage.
Wolf’s observations, which became the standard interpretation of island geology, depicted the islands as exposed tops of oceanic volcanoes with a distinctly different composition from the volcanic mountains of South America.
He died at Dresden.
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