GIEBEL, CHRISTOPH GOTTFRIED ANDREAS (182o-1881), German zoologist and palaeontologist, was born on Sept. 13, 182o at Quedlinburg in Saxony, and educated at the University of Halle, where he became professor of zoology and director of the museum in 1858. He died at Halle on Nov. 14, 1881.
His chief publications were Palaozoologie (1846) ; Fauna der Vorwelt ; Deutschlands Petrefacten (1852) ; Odontographie Lehrbuch der Zoologie (1857) ; Thesaurus ornithologiae