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''Grzimek's Animal Life Encyclopedia'' is a large comprehensive encyclopedia of animal life. It is named after its original editor in chief,
Bernhard Grzimek
Bernhard Klemens Maria Grzimek (; 24 April 1909 – 13 March 1987) was a German zoo director, zoologist, book author, editor, and animal conservationist in postwar West Germany.
Biography
Early years and education
Grzimek was born in Neisse (N ...
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Originally the encyclopedia was published as a 13-volume set in
German
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under the name ''Grzimeks Tierleben'' (''Grzimek's Animal Life'') in 1967-1972; it was translated into
English in 1972-75. The encyclopedia was an international collaboration by a large number of scientists including
Theodor Haltenorth
Dr. Theodor Haltenorth (May 18, 1910 – January 30, 1981) was a German mammalogist. He worked mainly in Munich, Bavaria, Germany, and was a key figure in the Quagga Project. He also taxonomised the Cretan wildcat
The Cretan wildcat is a me ...
,
Wolfgang Gewalt
Wolfgang Gewalt (28 October 1928 – 26 April 2007) was a German zoologist, author and former director of the Duisburg Zoo.
Biography
After the study of zoology, botany, chemistry and anthropology, his main focus was research of the great ...
,
Heinz-Georg Klös,
Konrad Lorenz,
Heinz Heck
Heinz Heck (22 January 1894 – 5 March 1982) was a German biologist and director of Hellabrunn Zoo (''Tierpark Hellabrunn'') in Munich. He was born in Berlin and died in Munich.
With his brother, Lutz Heck, who was director of the Berlin ...
, Lutz Heck, Jean Dorst, Constantine Walter Benson, Irenäus Eibl-Eibesfeldt, Helmut Sick, Heini Hediger, Wolfgang Makatsch, Erich Thenius, Erna Mohr, Adolf Portmann, Nagamichi Kuroda, Lester L. Short, Gerlof Fokko Mees, and Andrew John Berger. It was later extensively updated and republished in a 17-volume second edition under the supervision of Michael Hutchins in 2003. Some university libraries offer access to a digitized version of the second edition. The German edition also published three supplementary volumes: ''Entwicklungsgeschichte der Lebewesen'' (''History of Life''), ''Verhaltensforschung'' (''Behavioural Research'') and ''Unsere Umwelt als Lebensraum - Ökologie'' (''Our Environment as Living Space - Ecology'').
Online portal
In fall 2009, Gale Cengage released a web-based version of the encyclopedia, with access to the web site by subscription. The site allows users to rate articles and to submit videos and photography.
''Gale Launches Digital Version of Grzimek’s Animal Life Encyclopedia''
Cengage Press Release, 12 October 2009
Volumes for original 1967-1972 Edition
*Volume 1: Lower Animals (Protozoa, Sponges, Cnidarians, "Worms", Non-Hexapod Arthropods)
*Volume 2: Insects (Springtails and Relatives, Insects)
*Volume 3: Mollusks and Echinoderms (Mollusks, "Lophophorates", Non-Vertebrate Deuterostomes)
*Volume 4: Fishes 1
*Volume 5: Fishes 2 and Amphibia
*Volume 6: Reptiles
*Volume 7-9: Birds
*Volume 10-13: Mammals
Volumes for 2003 Edition
*Volume 1: Lower Metazoans and Lesser Deuterostomes
*Volume 2: Protostomes
*Volume 3: Insects
*Volume 4-5: Fish
*Volume 6: Amphibians
*Volume 7: Reptiles
*Volume 8-11: Birds
*Volume 12-16: Mammals
*Volume 17: Index
See also
*Brehms Tierleben
*Taxonomy of the animals (Hutchins et al., 2003)
References
External links
*Bernhard Grzimek, George M. Narita
''Grzimek’s animal life encyclopedia''
(1. edition, online)
Zoology books
Encyclopedias of science
English-language encyclopedias
German encyclopedias
1967 non-fiction books
1972 non-fiction books
2003 non-fiction books
20th-century encyclopedias