Leopold Adametz (11 October 1861,

Feldsberg Valtice (; ) is a town in Břeclav District in the South Moravian Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 3,600 inhabitants. It is known as part of Lednice–Valtice Cultural Landscape, a UNESCO World Heritage Site. The historic town centre is ...

– 27 January 1941,

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) was an

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. The son of a manufacturer, he studied at the Hochschule für Bodenkultur in

and at the

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. In 1886, he was awarded his doctorate. He became an assistant of Martin Wickens and in 1888 an assistant professor of zoology. From 1891 he was a professor in

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, from 1898 until 1932 he was the professor of animal product studies and the morphology of house pets at the Hochschule für Bodenkultur in Wien. He was a member of the

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Literary works

* ''Allgemeine Tierzucht'', 1926

References

External links

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1861 births 1941 deaths People from Valtice 19th-century Austrian zoologists Members of the Austrian Academy of Sciences Members of the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina Academic staff of Jagiellonian University Recipients of the Order of Polonia Restituta 20th-century Austrian zoologists Zoologists from Austria-Hungary {{zoologist-stub