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Günter E. W. Schmidt
Born	(1926-05-10)10 May 1926 Lübeck
Died	23 December 2016(2016-12-23) (aged 90) Deutsch Evern
Nationality	German
Scientific career
Fields	Arachnology

Günter E. W. Schmidt (born 10 May 1926 in Lübeck; died 23 December 2016 in Deutsch Evern) was a German arachnologist and author of a standard German work on tarantulas, Die Vogelspinnen ("bird-eating spiders"). He has been described as one of the fathers of German arachnology.

He studied biology and mostly worked in the pharmaceutical industry until his retirement. In 1975, he graduated with a PhD thesis on the arachnid fauna of the Canary Islands . From 1986, his scientific work was concentrated mainly on tarantulas. The World Spider Catalog lists 234 species names of which he is the author or co-author (not all currently accepted), of which 69 are in the family Theraphosidae (tarantulas).

Books

His books include:

• Schmidt, Günter (1986), Vogelspinnen : Lebensweise, Bestimmungsschlüssel, Haltung und Zucht, Minden: A. Philler, ISBN 978-3-7907-5001-0; followed by further editions, including Schmidt, Günter (1993), Vogelspinnen : Vorkommen, Lebensweise, Haltung und Zucht, mit Bestimmungsschlüsseln für alle Gattungen, Hannover: Landbuch, ISBN 978-3-7842-0484-0
• Schmidt, Günter (2000), Giftige und gefährliche Spinnentiere, Westarp Wissenschaften, ISBN 978-3-89432-405-6
• Schmidt, G. (2003), Die Vogelspinnen: Eine weltweite Übersicht, Neue Brehm-Bücherei, Hohenwarsleben: Westarp Wissenschaften, ISBN 978-3-89432-899-3

Species names

Several species names of spiders honour Günter Schmidt, including:

• Haplopelma schmidti von Wirth, 1991 (now Cyriopagopus schmidti)
• Aphonopelma schmidti Smith, 1995 (now a synonym of Aphonopelma chalcodes)
• Cyrtopholis schmidti Rudloff, 1996

References

1. "Traueranzeige Günter Schmidt", Lüneburger Landeszeitung (in German), 2016-12-24, retrieved 2017-03-17
2. Peters, H.-J. (2006), "Dr. Günter Schmidt – der älteste noch immer aktive Spinnenforscher der Alten Welt", Tarantulas of the World (in German), 11 (117), ISSN 1431-7990
3. ^ Obituary for Günther Schmidt by John Osmani
4. "Search for author 'Schmidt'", World Spider Catalog, Natural History Museum Bern, retrieved 2021-04-21
5. "Search for family 'Theraphosidae' and author 'Schmidt'", World Spider Catalog, Natural History Museum Bern, retrieved 2021-04-21
6. von Wirth, V. (1991), "Eine neue Vogelspinnenart aus Vietnam Haplopelma schmidti sp. n. (Araneae: Theraphosidae: Ornithoctoninae)", Arachnologischer Anzeiger, 18: 6–11
7. Smith, Andrew M. (1995), Tarantula Spiders: Tarantulas of the U.S.A. and Mexico, London: Fitzgerald Publishing, ISBN 0951093991
8. Rudloff, J.-P. (1996), "Cyrtopholis schmidti sp. n., eine neue Cyrtopholis-Art aus Brasilien (Araneida: Theraphosidae: Theraphosinae)", Arachnologisches Magazin, 4 (5): 2–8

• German arachnologists
• 1926 births
• 2016 deaths
• 20th-century German zoologists