Vinzenz Ziswiler
Vinzenz Johannes Ziswiler (1 February 1935 – 5 July 2025), also known as Vincent Ziswiler, was a Swiss zoologist and university lecturer.[1]
Life and career
Ziswiler was born in Lucerne on 1 February 1935.[2] He worked under Hans Burla as a curator at the Zoological Museum of the University of Zurich. In 1967 Ziswiler became a private lecturer, in 1972 an associate professor and in 1981 a professor at the University of Zurich. From 1984 to 1987 he was President of the Research Commission of the University.[3]
He had research stays at Harvard University, the American Museum of Natural History in New York and the National Museum of Natural History in Leiden. He also undertook research trips to Lake Kivu, Papua New Guinea, New Caledonia and the Southwest Pacific archipelagos.[4]
Ziswiler died on 5 July 2025, at the age of 90.[5]
References
- ^ Tober, James A. (25 November 1981). Who Owns the Wildlife?: The Political Economy of Conservation in Nineteenth-Century America. Bloomsbury Publishing USA. ISBN 978-0-313-38956-6.
- ^ "Vinzenz Johannes Ziswiler".
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ "Prof. Dr. Vinzenz Ziswiler, Emeritierter Professor für Vergleichende Anatomie und Systematik der Wirbeltiere". www.uzh.ch (in German). Retrieved 3 August 2025.
- ^ "Stiftung zum Schutze der Fledermäuse | Fledermausschutz". fledermausschutz.ch. Retrieved 3 August 2025.
- ^ "Prof. Dr. Vinzenz Ziswiler, Emeritierter Professor für Vergleichende Anatomie und Systematik der Wirbeltiere". www.uzh.ch (in German). Retrieved 3 August 2025.