- Alfred Voeltzkow
Alfred Voeltzkow (1860-1947) was a German
zoologist fromBerlin , Brandenburg. He studied sciences at the universities of Heidelberg, Berlin, Freiburg, and Würzburg, and received his doctorate in 1887.Voeltzkow is remembered for his scientific journeys throughout East Africa and islands of the Western
Indian Ocean (Comoros ,Madagascar ,Juan de Nova andAldabra ). On these expeditions, Voeltzkow collected zoological specimens of numerous genera for study and classification by scientists back in Europe.Voeltzkow's best-known written works concerned his African journeys, and were titled "Wissenschaftliche Ergebnisse der Reisen in Madagascar und Ost-Africa in den Jahren 1889-1895" and "Reise in Ostafrika in den Jahren 1903-1905".
His name is associated with numerous species, including "Cinachyrella voeltzkowi", "Spinivorticella voeltzkowi", "Cataulacus voeltzkowi", "
Pteropus voeltzkowi", "Leucochrysa voeltzkowi", "Oligochrysa voeltzkowi", "Anapochrysa voeltzkowi" and "Lissoclinum voeltzkowi".References
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