> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 546](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33066886) of TL-2 Vol. VII > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/12049-1) LSID 12049-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q61904) QID Q61904 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] ### Author Zittel, Karl Alfred \[von\] (1839-1904), German (Baden) palaeontologist; studied at the University of Heidelberg 1857-1861; at Paris 1861-1862; volunteer with the Geological Survey of Austria 1863; habil. Univ. Vienna 1863; professor of mineralogy at Karlsruhe 1863-1866; professor of palaeontology at München 1866, from 1890 also keeper of the Bavarian State Geological Collection. **Abbreviated name**: *Zitt.* \[standard form in IPNI: *Zitt.*\] #### Herbarium and types Unknown. #### Bibliography and biography Andrews p. 354; Barnhart 3: 542; BJI 1: 65; BM 5: 2394-2395, 8: 1475–1476; Herder p. 347, 354; Jackson p. 178; Merrill p. 376, 379; Quenstedt p. 475 (b. 25 Sep 1839, d. 5 Jan 1904); SIA see index; TL-2/2838, 9454, 9455, 10.567, see indexes; Tucker 1: 759. #### Biofile - Anon., Quart. J. Geol. Soc. London 60: lv-lix. 1904 (obit.); Bot. Centralbl. 81: 415. 1900 (Acad. Sci. Paris); Nat. Nov. 17: 334. 1895 (Akad. Berlin), 26: 130. 1904 (d.). - Barrois, C, Bull. Soc. géol. France ser. 4. 4: 488-493. 1904 (obit.). - Branco, W., Z. deut. geol. Ges. 56: 1-7. 1904 (obit.). - Jaekel, O., Naturw. Wochenschr. ser. 2. 3: 359-361. 1904 (obit.). - Kitchin, F.L., Geol. Mag. 476: 90-96. 1904 (obit., portr., bibl.). - Klautsch, A., Naturw. Rundschau, Wöchtenl. Ber. 19(5): 65-66. 1904 (obit.). - Nissen, C, Zool. Buchill. 443. 1969. - Pomepckj, J.F., Palaeontographica 50: 1-28. 1904 (biogr., portr.). - Schuchert, Ch., Ann. Rep. Smiths. Inst. 1904: 779-786. 1905 (obit., portr., partly transl. from Pomepckj (1904). - Schwarzbach, M., Auf den Spuren uns. Naturforscher 22, 71, 80, 81. 1981. - Taton, R., ed., Sci. 19th cent. 361, 450-451. 1965. - Vacek, M., Verh. k.k. geol. Reichsanst. Wien 1904: 45-47 (obit.). - Zittel, K.A. von, Gesch. Geol. Paläont. 868 \[index\]. 1899. #### Composite works - (1) Co-author, C.G.F. von Hochstetter, *Paläontol. Neu-Seeland*, 1865. (TL-2/2838). - (2) Editor, *Palaeontographica* 17, 19-50, 1870-1904. - (3) Editor and in part author of *Handbuch der Palaeontologie* 1880-1890, 5 vols., (of which vol 5. *Palaeophytologie* begonnen von W.Ph. Schimper... fortgesetzt und vollendet von A. Schenk; publ. 1879-1890, 9 Lief; *Lief. 1* by W.P. Schimper, p. 1-152, 1879; see TL-2/10.567 under Schenk. #### Eponymy *Zittelia* Felix (1882); *Zittelina* E. Munier-Chalmas ex L. Morellet et J. Morellet (1913). ### Publications ##### n.18.702. Geschichte der Geologie und Paläontologie **Title** *Geschichte der Geologie und Paläontologie* bis Ende des 19 Jahrhunderts... München und Leipzig (Druck und Verlag von R. Oldenburg) 1899. Oct. **Abbreviated title**: *Gesch. Geol. Paläont.* **Notes** *Publ*.: 1899 (p. vii: Jun 1899), p. \[ii\]-xi, \[1\]-868. *Copy*: LC. – Issued as vol. 23 of *Geschichte* *der Wissenschaften in Deutschland. Engl. transl.*: 1901, p. \[i-ii\], portr. author, \[iii\]-xiii, \[xv, err.\], \[1\]-562. *Copy*: USGS. – *History of geology and palaeontology*... translated by Maria M. Ogilvie-Gorden, London (Walter Scott,...) 1901. Oct. (*Hist. geol. palaeont.*). *Engl. transl., facsimile ed.*: 1962, Weinheim (J. Cramer) Historiae naturalis classica 22. *Copy*: FAS. Booknumber 18.703 has not been used.