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EDITORIAL
Professor Dr. Clas Michael Naumann zu Konigsbruck in his
home in Bielefeld, 10.03.1989 (Photo Ch. Esch, Munster).
Since the last issue of Zoologischer Anzeiger appearedearly this year, several changes occurred to our journal.Most dramatic is the untimely death of Prof. ClasMichael Naumann, editor-in-chief since 1995. Prof.Naumann passed away on 15 February 2004, after along bout with cancer. Without his energy andoptimism, Zoologischer Anzeiger would certainly haveended in 1994, when Dr. Johanna Schluter from GustavFischer Verlag, Jena (the publishers at that time) askedProf. Naumann to accept the task of saving the oldestGerman zoological journal. Together with ChristophHauser (at that time at the Koenig Museum) and myself,Prof. Naumann asked a number of colleagues to serve asco-editors, or as members of an advisory board. It cameas a most pleasant surprise and great encouragement tous, that all colleagues asked promptly agreed withenthusiasm. The present boards of editors and advisorsstill bear Prof. Naumann’s mark.Clas M. Naumann was born on 26.06.1939 in
Dresden, grew up near Hameln, went to high school inWilhelmshaven and Braunschweig, and studied Biologyat the Eberhard-Karls-Universitat in Tubingen. Hereceived his doctoral degree in 1970 from the RheinischeFriedrich Wilhelms-Universitat in Bonn, where he didhis doctoral dissertation at the Zoologisches Forschung-sinstitut und Museum Alexander Koenig on thesystematics and phylogeny of the holarctic Sesiidae —Insecta, Lepidoptera. After a period of three years as a
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university docent at Kabul University (Afghanistan), heworked for 2 years as an assistant in Bonn and for 3years at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitat in Munch-en, where he received his habilitation in 1977. The sameyear he was appointed a professor at the BielefeldUniversity, where he chaired the department of mor-phology and systematics of animals until 1989. Thatyear, he was appointed a full professor at the RheinischeFriedrich Wilhelms-Universitat in Bonn, at the sametime director of the Zoologisches Forschungsinstitutund Museum Alexander Koenig.His great merits for science in general and especially
at the Koenig Museum will be recognised in a specialissue of Bonner zoologische Beitrage, the museum’sscientific journal, in December this year. A complete listof Clas M. Naumann’s publications will also appear inthis issue.Less dramatic, but also important, is another change
on the editorial board: Geoff A. Boxshall from NaturalHistory Museum London, retired from his post as theeditor in charge of all manuscripts on arthropods exceptinsects. Geoff is one of the original group of co-editorswithout whom the Zoologischer Anzeiger would defi-nitely not have succeeded in its new form. He set qualitystandards in our reviewing system, attracted numerousauthors when Zoologischer Anzeiger suffered from alack in good manuscripts immediately after its re-organisation, and contributed several manuscripts him-self. Geoff was replaced by Andrew R. Parker of OxfordUniversity, UK. Geoff has agreed to serve on theAdvisory Board and will continue supporting ourjournal. Editors, readers and publishers of ZoologischerAnzeiger owe Geoff a great deal of gratitude.There are more changes on the Advisory Board:
Before replacing Geoff Boxshall as a co-editor, AndrewParker had replaced Christoph Hauser at the beginningof 2003 as a member of the Advisory Board. Christophplayed a crucial part in the survival of ZoologischerAnzeiger in 1994 and its renewal as he helped toconvince Prof. Naumann at that time to accept theposition as the editor-in-chief. Without this decision, thepublishers would have had severe problems to continuethe journal.At the beginning of 2004, Martin Fischer (Jena),
Hannes Paulus (Wien) and Rainer Willmann (Gottin-gen) retired from the Advisory Board, and Rolf Beutel
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(Jena), Olivier Rieppel (Chicago) and David Yeates(Canberra) joined it as new members.We, the editors, advisors and publishers, wish to
express our gratitude to Christoph Hauser, MartinFischer, Hannes Paulus and Rainer Willmann and hopethat they will continue their cooperation and support ofthe Zoologischer Anzeiger into the future.A last change should be mentioned: After Urban &
Fischer publishing house was taken over by ElsevierScience, we had to modify our layout style according tothe guidelines of the new publishers. We did our best tokeep the appearance as close to the one familiar to you
(and us), and hope that with the new layout you, thereaders and authors, remain true to ZoologischerAnzeiger. We — editors, advisors and publishers —shall continue in our efforts to keep this journal animportant and useful platform for the field of compara-tive zoology.
Michael Schmitt (Editor-in-Chief)Zoologisches Forschungsinstitut und
Museum Alexander Koenig,
Adenauerallee 160, Bonn 53113, Germany
E-mail address: [email protected]