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About Eduard Opitsch
- Eduard Opitsch (1 February 1900 – 20 February 1991) was a German quarry owner whose name is associated to a specimen of the prehistoric bird Archaeopteryx, the Maxberg specimen.The so-called Maxberg specimen of Archeopteryx lithographica has been discovered in 1956 in his quarry in Langenaltheim.
- Opitsch gave the fossil to the Maxberg Museum at Solnhofen.
- In 1974 he reintegrated the fossil into his private collection.
- When Opitsch died in 1991, it was found that the Archaeopteryx specimen was missing from his collection.
- The whereabouts of the fossil are unknown, but several photographs and a cast of it exist.
- Locals from Solnhofen believe that Opitsch buried it to keep it from his heirs.
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