Franz Martin Hilgendorf, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Franz Martin Hilgendorf

German zoologist

Date of Birth: 05-Dec-1839

Place of Birth: Dębno, West Pomeranian Voivodeship, Poland

Date of Death: 05-Jul-1904

Profession: naturalist, zoologist, paleontologist, entomologist, ichthyologist

Nationality: German Empire

Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius

Franz Martin Hilgendorf (5 December 1839 – 5 July 1904) was a German zoologist and paleontologist.
Hilgendorf's research on fossil snails from the Steinheim crater in the early 1860s became a palaeontological evidence for the theory of evolution published by Charles Darwin in 1859.