Lukas Hottinger (25 February 1933, Düsseldorf – 4 September 2011, Basel) was a paleontologist, biologist and geologist.
His thesis on Paleogene Alveolina included genus and species definitions and changes through time, the concept of phylogenetic lineages, and their use in zonal biochronology.
Published as a double volume of Mémoires Suisse de Paléontologie in 1960, this remains the authoritative work on these unique foraminifera.
From 1959 to 1964 he lived in Morocco working for the geological survey under the direction of Georges Choubert and Anne Faure-Muret, a time that was essential for his formation.
His bibliography, widely respected by the international scientific community, comprises over 120 papers and six monographs.
These contributions range far over the geological landscape, including topics as diverse as stratigraphy, paleoecology, and evolution, and spanning the globe from Indo-Pacific and Africa to the northeast Atlantic and the Mediterranean Sea.
Besides being a member of the Swiss Academy of Natural Sciences, in 1993 Professor Hottinger was honored with membership in the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts, and in 1997 was awarded the Doctor Honoris Causa by the Universidad Autonoma de Barcelona (Spain).
The significance of biogenous carbonate production in reef ecology and its experimental confirmation by anthropogenous eutrophication in Mauritius, Indian Ocean.
Zeev Reiss' contributions to structural analysis and comparative anatomy of the foraminiferan shell.
Scales in space, time and taxonomy in the research for the history of life.
Meandropsinids, an ophthalmidid family of Late Cretaceous K-strategists endemic in the Pyrenean Gulf.
"Glossary" and "e-Forams": free, rapid access to the current basic knowledge on foraminifera.
Upper Jurassic Lituolids in the Sierra de Chiapas (Mexico) and their relation to the Tethys.
Fusiform and laterally compressed alveolinids from both sides of the Late Cretaceous Atlantic.
(Foraminiferida) iz srednjega paleocena v severozahodni Jugoslaviji (Hottingerina lukasi n. gen., n. sp.
Nummulites et Assilines de la Téthys Paléogène: taxonomie, phylogénèse et biostratigraphie.
New Recent foraminiferal genera and species from the lagoon at Madang, Papua New Guinea.
Four new genera (Haymanella, Kayseriella, Elaziella and Orduella) and one new species of Hottingerina from the Paleocene of Turkey.