The Encyclopedia Americana (1920)/Ortmann, Arnold Edward

ORTMANN, Arnold Edward, American Palæontologist: b. Magdeburg, Prussia, 8 April 1863. He studied at the universities of Jena, Kiel and Strassburg, gaining the Ph.D. diploma at Jena in 1885. After doing military service in Germany he was sent to Zanzibar, Africa (1890-91), in search of natural history specimens. He came to the United States in 1894, was made curator of invertebrate palæontology (1894-1903) at Princeton, and became (1903-) curator of invertebrate zoology at Carnegie Museum, Pittsburgh. He was professor of physical geography at the University of Pittsburgh from 1910. In 1911 he was given the degree of Sc.D. by the University of Pittsburgh. He was a member of the Princeton Arctic Expedition in 1899. He has written among numerous other works ‘Grundzüge der Marinen Tiergeographie’ (1886); Continuation of Die Decapodon in Bronn's Klassen und Ordnungen des Tierreiche's (1898-1900); ‘Tertiary Invertebrates of the Princeton Expedition to Patagonia’ (1902). Besides being associate editor of the American Naturalist he has written many articles for the periodicals.