Leopold Adametz was a Moravia

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-born Austrian

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 zoologist. The son of a manufacturer, he studied at the Hochschule für Bodenkultur in Vienna

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 and at the University of Leipzig

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. In 1886 he was awarded his doctorate. He became an assistant of Martin Wickens and in 1888 an assistant professor of zoology. From 1891 he was a professor in Krakau, from 1898 until 1932 he was the professor of animal product studies and the morphology of house pets at the Hochschule für Bodenkultur in Wien. He was a member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences

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External links

• Aeiou.at
• Adametz Leopold - WIEM, darmowa encyklopedia at portalwiedzy.onet.pl
• Oeaw.ac.at