Heck, Ludwig, 1860-1951

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Name (Latin)
Heck, Ludwig, 1860-1951
Date of birth
1860-08-11
Date of death
1951-07-07
Gender
male
MARC
MARC
Other Identifiers
VIAF: 49980012
Wikidata: Q89772
Library of congress: n 2004022291
Sources of Information
  • LC database, June 24, 2004(hdg.: Heck, Ludwig, 1860- )
  • DDB Web OPAC, June 24, 2004(Heck, Ludwig (1860-1951))
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Wikipedia description:

Ludwig Franz Friedrich Georg Heck (11 August 1860 – 17 July 1951) was a German zoologist who served as the director of Berlin Zoo from 1888 to 1931. He was the father of the zoologists Lutz and Heinz Heck. Heck was a national socialist and on his 80th birthday he was personally awarded the Goethe Medal for Art and Science by Adolf Hitler. Heck contributed to a revision of Brehm's Tierleben and a species of monkey, Heck's macaque and a subspecies of the long-tailed finch Poephila acuticauda hecki are named after him.

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