- Theodor Wolf
Theodor Wolf (
February 13 ,1841 -June 22 ,1924 ) was a Germannaturalist who studied theGalápagos Islands during the late nineteenth century.Wolf Island (Wenman Island) is named after him. He was born atBartholomä (nearSchwäbisch Gmünd ).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. [Edward John Larson, "Evolution’s Workshop: God and Science on the Galapagos Islands" (Basic Books, 2001), 107.]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 ofSouth America . [Edward John Larson, "Evolution’s Workshop: God and Science on the Galapagos Islands" (Basic Books, 2001), 107.]He died at
Dresden .References
External links
* [http://www.galapagos.to/TEXTS/JAGER.HTM Observations of Theodor Wolf]
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