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Franz Martin Hilgendorf

This article is about the zoologist. For the New Zealand scientist, see Frederick William Hilgendorf.
Franz Martin Hilgendorf
Born(1839-12-05)5 December 1839
Neudamm (Mark Brandenburg), Germany
(today Dębno, Poland)
Died5 July 1904(1904-07-05) (aged 64)
Berlin Germany
NationalityGerman
Known fordiscovery of evolution in snails
Scientific career
Fieldszoologist and paleontologist

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.

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