Christoph Gottfried Andreas Giebel

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Christoph Gottfried Andreas Giebel (13 September 182014 November 1881), German zoologist and palaeontologist, was born in Quedlinburg, Prussian Saxony, and educated at the University of Halle, where he graduated in 1845 with a Ph.D.. In 1858 he became professor of zoology and director of the museum there. He died at Halle.

His chief publications were Palaeozoologie (1846); Fauna der Vorwelt (1847-1856); Deutschlands Petrefacten (1852); Odontographie (1855); Lehrbuch der Zoologie (1857); Thesaurus ornithologiae (1872-1877).

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