Franz Martin Hilgendorf

Franz Martin Hilgendorf
Born	(1839-12-05)5 December 1839 Neudamm (Mark Brandenburg), Germany (today Dębno, Poland)
Died	5 July 1904(1904-07-05) (aged 64) Berlin Germany
Nationality	German
Known for	discovery of evolution in snails
Scientific career
Fields	zoologist and paleontologist

Franz Martin Hilgendorf (5 December 1839 – 5 July 1904) was a German zoologist and paleontologist. Hilgendorf's research on fossil snails from the Steinheim crater in the early 1860s became a palaeontological evidence for the theory of evolution published by Charles Darwin in 1859.