Stümpke, Harald
Entry updated 3 August 2026. Tagged: Author.
Pseudonym of German zoologist and author Gerolf Steiner (1908-2009) for his spoof exercise in imaginary zoology (see Biology), Bau und Leben der Rhinogradentia ["Anatomy and Life of the Rhinogrades"] (1962 chap; trans Leigh Chadwick as The Snouters: Form and Life of the Rhinogrades 1967 chap). The strangely-nosed Rhinogrades, or snouters, are a new order of mammals discovered in Hi-yi-yi, an unknown Archipelago in the Pacific Ocean. Unfortunately, an American nuclear test destroys the archipelago, the species, and a congress of zoologists gathered to study the snouters. A follow-up in similar vein is Stümpke's Rhinogradentia: Versuch einer Analyse ["Stümpke's Rhinogrades: Attempt at an Analysis"] (1987) as by Karl D S Geeste, which remains untranslated. [JC/DRL]
Gerolf Steiner
born Strasbourg, Alsace, Germany [now France]: 22 March 1908
died Heidelberg, Germany: 14 August 2009
works (highly selected)
- Bau und Leben der Rhinogradentia ["Anatomy and Life of the Rhinogrades"] (Jena, Germany: Gustav Fischer Verlag, 1962) [chap: illus/Gerolf Steiner: pb/]
- The Snouters: Form and Life of the Rhinogrades (Garden City, New York: The Natural History Press for The American Museum of Natural History, 1967) [trans by Leigh Chadwick of the above: illus/Gerolf Steiner: hb/]
- Stümpke's Rhinogradentia: Versuch einer Analyse ["Stümpke's Rhinogrades: Attempt at an Analysis"] (Jena, Germany: Gustav Fischer Verlag, 1987) as by Karl D S Geeste [pb/]
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