Ludwig Glauert (5 May 1879 - 1 February 1963) was a British-born Australian paleontologist, herpetologist and museum curator. He is known for work on Pleistocene mammal fossils, and as a museum curator who played an important role in natural science of Western Australia. Glauert was born in Ecclesall, Sheffield, England. His father was Johann Ernst Louis Henry Glauert, merchant and cutlery manufacturer, and his mother was Amanda, née Watkinson.

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  • Ludwig Glauert (5 May 1879 - 1 February 1963) was a British-born Australian paleontologist, herpetologist and museum curator. He is known for work on Pleistocene mammal fossils, and as a museum curator who played an important role in natural science of Western Australia. Glauert was born in Ecclesall, Sheffield, England. His father was Johann Ernst Louis Henry Glauert, merchant and cutlery manufacturer, and his mother was Amanda, née Watkinson. He was educated in Sheffield at Sheffield Royal Grammar School, at Firth University College and the Technical School, studying geology, becoming a Fellow of the Geological Society of London in 1900. In 1908 he and his wife migrated to Perth, Western Australia, where he joined the Geological Survey there as a paleontologist, working to arrange the collections of the Western Australian Museum. In 1910 he became part of the permanent staff of the museum and in 1914 was promoted to Keeper of Geology and Ethnology. From 1909 to 1915 he carried out fieldwork at the Margaret River caves, finding fossils of several species of extinct monotremes and marsupials in the Pleistocene limestone there. Glauert died in Perth.
  • Ludwig Glauert est un zoologiste et un paléontologiste australien, né le 5 mai 1879 à Sheffield et mort le 1 février 1963 à Perth.
  • È noto soprattutto per i suoi studi sui mammiferi fossili del Pleistocene e per essere stato uno dei più influenti naturalisti dell'Australia Occidentale. Glauert nacque a Ecclesall, nello Sheffield, Inghilterra. Venne educato nella locale scuola elementare e in seguito al Firth University College e alla Technical School, dove studiò geologia; nel 1900 divenne membro della Società Geologica di Londra. Nel 1908, insieme alla moglie, si trasferì a Perth, in Australia Occidentale, dove lavorò come paleontologo presso la Geological Survey, cercando di ordinare e catalogare le collezioni del Western Australian Museum. Nel 1910 divenne membro permanente dello staff del museo e nel 1914 venne promosso Curatore di Geologia ed Etnologia. Dal 1909 al 1915 effettuò una serie di scavi nelle caverne del Fiume Margaret, scoprendo nei calcari del Pleistocene i fossili di alcune specie di monotremi e marsupiali estinti. Glauert morì a Perth.
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  • Ludwig Glauert (5 May 1879 - 1 February 1963) was a British-born Australian paleontologist, herpetologist and museum curator. He is known for work on Pleistocene mammal fossils, and as a museum curator who played an important role in natural science of Western Australia. Glauert was born in Ecclesall, Sheffield, England. His father was Johann Ernst Louis Henry Glauert, merchant and cutlery manufacturer, and his mother was Amanda, née Watkinson.
  • Ludwig Glauert est un zoologiste et un paléontologiste australien, né le 5 mai 1879 à Sheffield et mort le 1 février 1963 à Perth.
  • È noto soprattutto per i suoi studi sui mammiferi fossili del Pleistocene e per essere stato uno dei più influenti naturalisti dell'Australia Occidentale. Glauert nacque a Ecclesall, nello Sheffield, Inghilterra. Venne educato nella locale scuola elementare e in seguito al Firth University College e alla Technical School, dove studiò geologia; nel 1900 divenne membro della Società Geologica di Londra.
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  • Ludwig Glauert
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