Angela von den Driesch

Angela von den Driesch (11 July 1934 – 4 January 2012) was a German archaeologist and veterinarian. She was a professor and director of the Institut für Paläoanatomie, Domestikationsforschung und Geschichte der Tiermedizin at LMU Munich. in 1970. She was made a university professor in 1978 and succeeded Boessnick as the director of the Institute for Palaeoanatomy in 1991.

Legacy A festschrift in von den Driesch's honour, Historia animalium ex ossibus, was edited by Cornelia Becker, Henriette Manhart, Joris Peters, and Jörg Schibler and published in 1999. Thirty-seven papers were contributed in German, English and French. On her death, an international symposium in her memory was held at Koç University in Istanbul.

Von den Driesch began building a reference collection of vertebrate bones when she joined the Institute for Palaeoanatomy in the 1960s, which grew to become one of the largest osteological collections in the world.