Richard Sternfeld

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Richard Sternfeld (8 February 1884, Bielefeld – 1943, Auschwitz) was a German-Jewish herpetologist.

Sternfeld served as director of the department of herpetology at the Naturmuseum Senckenberg in Frankfurt am Main. He was the binomial author of numerous herpetological species.[1] On 1 March 1943 he was deported by the Nazis to Auschwitz, where he was murdered later that same year.[2]

Eponymy

The following are a few herpetological species named after Sternfeld:

  • Sternfeld's sand lizard (Pedioplanis breviceps), 1911.
  • Sternfeld's beaked snake (Rhinotyphlops graueri), 1912.
  • Sternfeld's gecko (Cnemaspis quattuorseriata), 1912.[3]
  • Trioceros sternfeldi, 1963, a species of chameleon.[4]

Published works

In 1912 he published his best known work, a book on Central European herpetofauna titled "Die Reptilien und Amphibien mitteleuropas".[5] Other written efforts by Sternfeld include:

  • Die Schlangenfauna Togos, 1908 – Snakes native to Togoland.
  • Die Schlangen Deutsch-Ostafrikas, 1910 – Snakes native to German East Africa.
  • Zur Herpetologie Südostafrikas, 1911 – Herpetology of southeastern Africa.
  • Zur Tiergeographie Papuasiens und der pazifischen Inselwelt, 1920 – Zoogeography involving Papua New Guinea and islands of the Pacific.
  • Beiträge zur Herpetologie Inner-Australiens, 1925 – Contribution to the herpetology of Australia's interior.[6]

References

  1. ↑ List of species described by fr:Richard Sternfeld at the French Wikipedia.
  2. ↑ Stolpersteine in Berlin vital statistics
  3. ↑ Google Books The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles by Bo Beolens, Michael Watkins, Michael Grayson
  4. ↑ The Reptile Database Trioceros sternfeldi
  5. ↑ Open Library Die Reptilien und Amphibien mitteleuropas
  6. ↑ Google Search (publications)
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