# Ludwig Heck

> Ludwig Franz Friedrich Georg Heck was a German zoologist who served as the director of Berlin Zoo from 1888 to 1931. He was the father of the zoologists Lutz and Heinz Heck. Heck was a national socialist and on his 80th birthday he was personally awarded the Goethe Medal for Art and Science by Adolf Hitler. Heck contributed to a revision of Brehm's Tierleben and a species of monkey, Heck's macaque and a subspecies of the long-tailed finch Poephila acuticauda hecki are named after him.

*Director of the Berlin Zoological Gardens (1860-1951)*

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## Identity
- **Profile type:** Scientist ([Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631))
- **Category:** Scientists
- **Country:** Germany
- **Born:** 1860-08-11
- **Died:** 1951-07-07
- **Status:** deceased
- **Gender:** male

## Bio

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## Fame
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## Sources
- [Ludwig Heck](https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludwig_Heck)
- [لودويغ هيك](https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%84%D9%88%D8%AF%D9%88%D9%8A%D8%BA_%D9%87%D9%8A%D9%83)
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- [Ludwig Heck (Zoologe)](https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludwig_Heck_(Zoologe))
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- [Хек, Людвиг](https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A5%D0%B5%D0%BA%2C_%D0%9B%D1%8E%D0%B4%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B3)
- [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q89772)

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