Carl Eduard Adolph (Adolph) Gerstaecker (1828–95)

German zoologist. Studied medicine at the University of Berlin and passed the state medical examination in 1852 but never practised. Habilitated in zoology, University of Berlin, 1856; became keeper of the entomological collection at the Berlin zoological museum, 1856. Docent in zoology at the agricultural institute, Berlin, 1864; professor extraordinarius, 1874. Professor of zoology, University of Greifswald, 1876. Co-editor with Julius Victor Carus of the Handbuch der Zoologie (1863), for which he wrote the chapter on arthropods.