Victor Sterki

Victor Sterki
Born 1846
Solothurn, Switzerland
Died 1933 (aged 86–87)
Residence Ohio
Fields malacology
Alma mater University of Bern and Munich University[1]
Known for research in Pupillidae and in Sphaeriidae[1]

Victor Sterki (1846 in Solothurn, Switzerland - 1933)[1] was a malacologist from Switzerland who lived in the U.S.A.[2]

He worked as an assistant in the Section of Invertebrates in the Carnegie Museum of Natural History from 1909 to 1933.[1]

Malacological collections by Sterki of Pupillidae has 4000 lots and of Sphaeriidae has 12,000 lots.[1] Both collections are deposited in the Carnegie Museum of Natural History.[1]

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f "Victor Sterki". Carnegie Museum of Natural History, accessed 23 April 2011.
  2. ^ Coan E. V., Kabat A. R. & Petit R. E. (15 February 2011). 2,400 years of malacology, 8th ed., 936 pp. + 42 pp. [Annex of Collations]. American Malacological Society