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Ludwig Heck

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Director of the Berlin Zoological Gardens (1860-1951)

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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.

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1940Goethe Medal for Art and Science

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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.

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Germany
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Scientists
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Scientist
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deceased
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Lived 1860 to 1951 · aged 90
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