Name Christoph Andreas | ||
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Died November 14, 1881, Halle, Germany Education Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg | ||
Christoph Gottfried Andreas Giebel (13 September 1820 – 14 November 1881) was a German zoologist and palaeontologist.
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Biography
Giebel was born on 13 September 1820 in Quedlinburg, Prussian Saxony, and educated at the University of Halle, where he graduated in 1845 with a Ph.D.. At Halle his instructors were Ernst Friedrich Germar and Hermann Burmeister. In 1858 he became professor of zoology and director of the museum there. He died on 14 November 1881 at Halle.
Works
Giebel's chief publications were Palaeozoologie (1846); Fauna der Vorwelt (1847-1856); Deutschlands Petrefacten (1852); Odontographie (1855); Lehrbuch der Zoologie (1857); Thesaurus ornithologiae (1872-1877). His 5-volume Naturgeschichte des Tierreichs (1859–1864) is considered to be a forerunner to Brehms Tierleben. With Wilhelm Heinrich Heintz, he was editor of the Zeitschrift für Naturwissenschaften.
He is the taxonomic author of the extinct fish genera Asima (1848), Elonichthys (1848), and Tharsis (1847).