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Franz Theodor Wolf (February 13, 1841 - June 22, 1924) was a German naturalist who studied the Galápagos Islands during the late nineteenth century. Wolf Island (Wenman Island) is named after him. The wolf volcano on Isabela Island was also named after him. He was born at Bartholomä (in the Ostalbkreis). He published his ''Ein Besuch der Galápagos-Inseln, Sammlung von Vortraegen fuer das deutsche Volk'' (“A Visit to the Galápagos Islands: A Collection of Presentations for the German People”) in 1892. His observations also include notes on the human population on the islands. He had performed a geologic survey of mainland Ecuador, but unfortunately his collections were lost in storage.〔Edward John Larson, ''Evolution’s Workshop: God and Science on the Galapagos Islands'' (Basic Books, 2001), 107.〕 Wolf’s observations, which became the standard interpretation of island geology, depicted the islands as exposed tops of oceanic volcanoes with a distinctly different composition from the volcanic mountains of South America.〔Edward John Larson, ''Evolution’s Workshop: God and Science on the Galapagos Islands'' (Basic Books, 2001), 107.〕 He died at Dresden. ==References== 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Theodor Wolf」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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