Theodor Wolf

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Theodor Wolf (February 13, 1841 - June 22, 1924) was a German naturalist who studied the Galápagos Islands during the late nineteenth century. Wolf Island (Wenman Island) is named after him. The wolf volcano on Isabela Island was also named after him. He was born at Bartholomä (in the Ostalbkreis).

He published his Ein Besuch der Galápagos-Inseln, Sammlung von Vortraegen fuer das deutsche Volk (“A Visit to the Galápagos Islands: A Collection of Presentations for the German People”) in 1892. His observations also include notes on the human population on the islands.

He had performed a geologic survey of mainland Ecuador, but unfortunately his collections were lost in storage.^[1]

Wolf’s observations, which became the standard interpretation of island geology, depicted the islands as exposed tops of oceanic volcanoes with a distinctly different composition from the volcanic mountains of South America.^[2]

He died at Dresden.

School of scalloped hammerheads, Wolf Island, named after "Theodor Wolf" in the Galapagos Islands

Another school of scalloped hammerheads at Wolf Island, named after "Theodor Wolf", Galapagos

References

↑ Edward John Larson, Evolution’s Workshop: God and Science on the Galapagos Islands (Basic Books, 2001), 107.
↑ Edward John Larson, Evolution’s Workshop: God and Science on the Galapagos Islands (Basic Books, 2001), 107.

External links

Observations of Theodor Wolf

Authority control	WorldCat VIAF: 13085057 LCCN: no2005039128 ISNI: 0000 0001 0871 3708 GND: 117445924 SUDOC: 083783156

Persondata
Name	Wolf, Theodor
Alternative names
Short description	german naturalist
Date of birth	February 13, 1841
Place of birth
Date of death	June 22, 1924
Place of death

This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike; additional terms may apply for the media files.