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William Adolf Ludwig (William) Marshall

1845–1907

German zoologist. Studied in Jena and Göttingen; DPhil., Göttingen, 1871. Assistant at the National Museum of Natural History in Leiden, the Netherlands, 1867–72. Secretary to the grand duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, 1872–9. Assistant in zoology to Rudolf Leuckart, Leipzig, 1877; lecturer, 1880; professor extraordinarius of zoology and comparative anatomy, 1885–1907.

Source

Daum 1998, p. 500

Bibliography

Daum, Andreas W. 1998. Wissenschaftspopularisierung im 19. Jahrhundert: bürgerliche Kultur, naturwissenschaftliche Bildung und die deutsche Offentlichkeit, 1848–1914. Munich: R. Oldenbourg.

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