Franz Martin Hilgendorf

Franz Martin Hilgendorf
Born(1839-12-05)5 December 1839
Died5 July 1904(1904-07-05) (aged 64)
NationalityGerman
Known fordiscovery of evolution in snails
Scientific career
Fieldszoologist and paleontologist

Franz Martin Hilgendorf (5 December 1839 – 5 July 1904) was a German zoologist and paleontologist. Hilgendorf's research on fossil snails from the Steinheim crater in the early 1860s became a palaeontological evidence for the theory of evolution published by Charles Darwin in 1859.