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Tn 18(>2 Zittol was a volunteer assistant to (he •^'•eolofrical survey of 

 Austria, l)eiii<2- associated witli F. von Ilauei- and (J. Slache in map- 

 ping the coast region of Dalniatia. 



Tn 1S(>8 he was offered the position of professor ordinariiis at 

 Lemberg, but declined it to accept a far less well-endowed i)(>silion 

 as assistant in the Royal Mineral ('al)iiu>t of Vienna, now known as 

 the Koyal Natural History Museum. This determination on the j)art 

 of the idealist, Zittel, caused much surj)rise, yet to him the great 

 paleontologic collections of Vienna were of far greater interest than 

 the salary attached to the i)rofess()rship. His decision was fortunate 

 for paleontology; he hei-e began his ])aIe<)nt()logic career in his studies 

 of the bivalves of the Gosau formation — his first extensive work. 



In 1803 he returned to his home in P)aden, and acce])te(l the pro- 

 fessorship of mineralogy, geognosy, and paleontology at the Poly- 

 technic School at Karlsruhe. Here he renuiined three years, during 

 which time he married Miss Ida Schirnicr. a daughter of I. W. Schir- 

 nier, the landscape painter, anil director of the Karlsi-uhe Art School. 



At the age of 27 years, or in the autunni of 1S(U). he was called to 

 Munich, to the distinguished position of })rofessor of paleontology 

 and conservator of the j)aleontol()gical collections of Bavaria. This 

 position had been made vacant by the earlv death of Albert Oppel. 

 In 1880 he declined a call to (liittingen as successor to von Seebach, 

 and was made professor of geology; also, after the death of Schaf- 

 hautle in 1800, he was appointed conservator of the Bavarian geolog- 

 ical collections. 



"" Munich became Zittel's second home. Here he taught and labored 

 for more than thirty-seven years. These were years re])lete with con- 

 tinuous and fruitful investigation and instruction — a long period of 

 labor which was only occasionally interrupted by grudgingly allowed 

 vacations and these were not infrequently devoted to scientific jour- 

 neys. Strict and loyal in the fulfillment of duty, and an exam})le to 

 all as a lover of work, Zittel could be found day after day in his 

 simple workroom in the grey Alte Akaclemie in Neuhauserstrasse. 

 During his last months of illness it was ver}^ hard for him to be kept 

 from the daily walk to his Institute and from the treasures of his col- 

 lections. Ceaseless work was the motto of his life — even on his last 

 sick bed he wrote for the completi(»n of the second edition of his 

 Grundziige der Palaeontologie — till death put an end to his life and 

 to his labors. 



"At Munich Zittel entered the field of work to which he was emi- 

 nently fitted. Here he was held in highest esteem, established a 

 world-wide reputation, and created for himself and for Munich the 

 greatest renown by his l)rilliant Avorks. the chief being the Ilandbuch 

 der Palaeontologie. The Munich Paleontologic Museum — Zittel's col- 



