Gerolf Steiner (22 March 1908 – 14 August 2009) was a German zoologist.
Steiner was born in Strasbourg, Alsace in March 1908.
[1][2][3][4] He died five months after his 101st birthday on August 14, 2009 in Heidelberg.
[5] Steiner is best known for a 1961 book authored pseudonymously as Harald Stümpke on the anatomy and habits of the rhinogradentia, a fictitious order of extinct mammals whose nose evolved in unusual ways.
[6] He has published also under the pseudonyms of Justus Andereich,[6] Trotzhard Wiederumb,[6] and Karl D.S.