"Alfred Voeltzkow (14 April 1860 – February 1947) was a German zoologist and botanist from Berlin, Brandenburg.
He studied sciences at the universities of Heidelberg, Berlin, Freiburg, ...
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and Würzburg, receiving his doctorate at Freiburg in 1887 with a dissertation on Aspidogaster conchicola. He obtained his habilitation at the University of Strasbourg, and in 1900 became a member of the Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina.
Voeltzkow is remembered for his scientific journeys in eastern Africa and islands of the Western Indian Ocean; (Comoros, Madagascar, Juan de Nova and Aldabra). On these expeditions, Voeltzkow collected zoological specimens of numerous genera for study and classification." - (en.wikipedia.org 11.08.2021)
