Historical collection
The geological and palaeontological collection has significantly profited from the activities of its former curators and from the professors of the Geological Institute at ETH Zurich.
Porana oeningesis Heer, Öhningen (D)
Take a look at twelve of our most important historical collections, ordered alphabetically by name of the collector or revisor.
These scientists have illustrated part of their material in publications and their collections often contain many taxonomic type specimens.
Individual collections
The individual portraits are in German only.
- Louis Agassiz (1807–1873)
- Otto Appert (1930–2012)
- Perceval de Loriol (1828–1908)
- Edouard Desor (1811–1882)
- René Hantke (1925–2024)
- Oswald Heer (1809–1883)
- Albert Heim (1849–1937)
- Alphonse Jeannet (1883–1962)
- Charles Mayer-Eymar (1826–1907)
- Casimir Mösch (1827–1898)
- Fritz Oppliger (1861–1932)
- Louis Rollier (1859–1931)
Curator
Dr. Iwan Stössel
Lecturer at the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences
Dep. Erd- u Planetenwissenschaften
Sonneggstrasse 5
8092
Zürich
Switzerland