She was a professor and director of the Institut für Paläoanatomie, Domestikationsforschung und Geschichte der Tiermedizin at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich.
[1] Angela Felicitas Karpf was born on 11 July 1934 in Dresden but her family moved to Tegernsee, Bavaria after the Second World War.
She was awarded the degree of Doctor Medicinae Veterinariae by Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich in 1963 for her thesis on the lymphatic system of the testicle.
[1] On her retirement in 1999, she managed to persuade the university not to close the institute,[1] and as of 2019 was the only combined Lehrstuhl [de] in palaeoanatomy and veterinary history in Germany.
[4] A festschrift in von den Driesch's honour, Historia animalium ex ossibus, was edited by Cornelia Becker, Henriette Manhart, Joris Peters, and Jörg Schibler and published in 1999.