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SSAR OFFICERS (2017) HERPETOLOGICAL REVIEW President RICK SHINE THE QUARTERLY BULLETIN OF THE University of Sydney SOCIETY FOR THE STUDY OF AMPHIBIANS AND REPTILES [email protected] President-elect Editor Conservation SEAN P. GRAHAM MARTHA CRUMP ROBERT W. HANSEN JENNIFER STABILE Sul Ross State University, Texas, USA Utah State University 16333 Deer Path Lane Field Projects International [email protected] [email protected] Clovis, California 93619-9735 USA [email protected] Secretary [email protected] J. SEAN DOODY MARION R. PREEST Current Research Southeastern Louisiana University, USA Associate Editors CHAVA WEITZMAN The Claremont Colleges [email protected] MICHAEL F. BENARD University of Nevada, Reno, USA [email protected] Case Western Reserve University, USA [email protected] JOHN D. WILLSON Treasurer University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, USA JESSE L. 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TRAVIS LADUC, Co-Editor the goals of the Society. To join SSAR or to renew your membership, please visit University of Texas at Austin All members of the SSAR are entitled to vote by mail the secure online SSAR membership website via this link: CHRISTOPHER J. BELL, Co-Editor ballot for Society officers, which allows overseas members https://ssar.wildapricot.org/ University of Texas at Austin Herpetological Conservation Future Annual Meetings JOSEPH C. MITCHELL, Editor 2017 — Austin, Texas, USA 12–16 July (JMIH with ASIH and HL) Mitchell Ecological Research Services © 2017 Society for the Study of Amphibians and Reptiles HERPETOLOGICAL HISTORYXXX 93 HERPETOLOGICAL HISTORY Herpetological Review, 2017, 48(1), 93–108. © 2017 by Society for the Study of Amphibians and Reptiles Louis Amédée Lantz (1886-1953): The Life and Work of an Alsatian Pioneer of European Herpetology I. LOUIS AMÉDÉE LANTZ, WHO WAS HE? (Departmental archives of Haut-Rhin 8 AL 1/14358 and 8 AL 1/14341) (Fig. 2). Louis Amédée Lantz was born at Mulhouse (Department The current “Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Chimie” in of Haut-Rhin, Alsace, France) on March 20, 1886 and given the Mulhouse (ENSCMu) was the first school of chemistry in France, name Ludwig Amedeus Lantz during the annexation of Alsace founded in 1822 by industrialists whose objective was to develop to the German empire. He was the son of Albert Amédée Lantz, the training of their employees and hence the competitiveness pharmacist at Porte-Haute in Mulhouse (deceased at Mulhouse of their companies. As early as 1750, a powerful textile printing in 1909) and his wife born Caroline (Elisa) Herrmann (deceased industry developed in Mulhouse, in present-day Alsace, modifying at Mulhouse in 1902) (Departmental archives of Haut-Rhin, Colmar – registered AL 90806, vol. 363, deed N° 903). His birth certificate, dated March 20, 1886 was written in German and bears the number 580 of civil status at Mulhouse (N° 580/1886). In the German military system in use during Lantz’s youth, young people making secondary level studies could ask to UNKNOWN SOURCE perform a military service of just a single year, on presentation of PHOTO PHOTO a school certificate. Louis Lantz made such a request in January 1906, by attaching a curriculum vitae that summarized his complete academic background. Louis Lantz studied in a private school—Dollfus at Mulhouse—from the autumn of 1891 to the autumn of 1893 and then joined the college of Mulhouse, a high school (Fig. 1). He passed an examination for the voluntary military service of one year during the summer of 1900 and obtained his baccalaureate in January 1903 after the continuation of his schooling at the high school of Mulhouse. Lantz conducted brief studies of zoology and botany at the University of Montpellier (1903–1904), a city where his sister Henriette (marital name Benner) lived. She unfortunately died in 1904. Louis Amédée Lantz then joined the chemistry school in Mulhouse during the autumn of 1904. He obtained his diploma as a chemical engineer with an “excellent” distinction in 1907 IVAN INEICH Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle, Sorbonne Universités Institut de Systématique, Evolution et Biodiversité (ISyEB) UMR 7205 (CNRS, MNHN, UPMC, EPHE) 57, rue Cuvier - CP 30 75251 Paris cedex 05, France e-mail: [email protected] IGOR DORONIN Department of Herpetology Zoological Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences St.Petersburg 199034 Universitetskaya nab.,1, Russia FIG. 1. Louis Lantz in Mulhouse most likely around 1896 when about e-mail: [email protected] ten years old. Herpetological Review 48(1), 2017 94 XXXHERPETOLOGICAL HISTORY SOURCE UNKNOWN SOURCE COURTESY OF I. INEICH I. OF COURTESY PHOTO PHOTO PHOTO PHOTO FIG. 2. The diploma of chemistry-engineer from the Chemistry School FIG. 3. Louis Lantz in July 1907 at Mulhouse just before his graduation of Mulhouse awarded to Louis Lantz on July 27, 1907. as chemist engineer. the economic and social framework of this modest village. The Shortly after his departure from this school, Lantz obtained idea of creating a chemistry school in Mulhouse was launched, his first position as a chemical engineer in Moscow