Wallace specialist Matthias Glaubrecht

Wallace specialist Matthias Glaubrecht is Professor of Animal Biodiversity. In addition to numerous specialist publications, the evolutionary systematist and historian of science has also written biographies on Charles Darwin ("Es ist, als man einen Mord gesteht"; Herder 2009) and Alfred Russel Wallace ("Am Ende des Archipels"; Galiani 2013), as well as editing historical travelogues, including. Adelbert von Chamisso's "Journey Around the World" (Andere Bibliothek 2012), Alfred R. Wallace's "Adventures on the Amazon and Rio Negro" (Galiani 2014), and most recently Prince Maximilian zu Wied-Neuwied's "Journey to Brazil" (Andere Bibliothek 2015).

He has received several awards for his work, including the Werner and Inge Grüter Award of the Donors' Association for the Promotion of Sciences and Humanities in Germany (1996) and the Bscher Media Award of the Humboldt University Society (2006).

Before taking over as director of the Center for Natural History in 2014, which was founded in the same year, he had been curator of malacozoology at the Museum für Naturkunde in Berlin since 1997 and was also a member of the directorate as head of the research department (2006-2009). As scientific curator he was responsible for the permanent exhibition "EvA - Evolution in Action" (2007) and the special exhibition "Darwin's Journey to Knowledge" (2009). For the Museum of Nature Hamburg - Zoology, he curated the new partial exhibition on the Anthropocene, which opened in 2017.