Franz Xaver Alfred Johann Schilder (born 13 April 1896 in Královské Vinohrady, now a district of Prague, died 11 August 1970 in Halle ) was an Austrian-born[1] German biologist, taxonomist, malacologist and honorary professor of animal geography.
[1] Since the time when Schilder read an ethnological work Muschelgeldstudien by O. Schneider, he became interested in studying the Cypraeacea and wrote his dissertation about it.
[4] Schilder’s complete bibliography comprises over 400 titles, including malacological, entomological, biometrical, etc.
[2] Among others he published Lehrbuch der Allegomeinen Zoogeographie, a text which focuses on the recognition of biogeographic areas at all geographic scales.
[4] A summary and conclusion of his work “A Catalogue of living and fossil Cowries” was written jointly with his wife, Maria Schilder and published after his death in 1971.