Théophile Rudolphe Studer or Theophil Studer (27 November 1845 â 12 February 1922) was a Swiss ornithologist and marine biologist. He worked on the collections made on the voyage of the and produced a catalogue of the birds of the Switzerland. Another major work was on the study of dog skeletons associated with prehistoric human settlements. He worked as a professor of zoology at the University of Bern from 1873.
Studer was born in Bern to Gottlieb and Henriette Kappeler. He studied medicine from 1865 to 1870 at Bern and became a military doctor, serving during the Franco-German war. He then studied zoology at Leipzig under Rudolf Leuckart. From 1871 to 1922 he was a curator of zoological collections at the museum of natural history in Bern. In 1874âÂÂ1876 he took part in a scientific journey aboard the German steam frigate , sent in part to study the 1874 transit of Venus. Two years after his return he was a professor of zoology and comparative anatomy at the school of veterinary medicine in Bern. He conducted studies on the remains of canines from Neolithic and Paleolithic archeological digs. He presided over the Swiss Society of Natural Sciences from 1887 to 1992.
With Victor Fatio (1838âÂÂ1906), he published the first three installments of Catalogue des oiseaux de la Suisse (Catalogue of birds of Switzerland). Other writings by Studer include: