Top Researcher and Human Friend: Biodiversity Researcher Josef Settele Is Dead

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The biologist was one of the most prominent researchers in the world when it came to the species crisis. Now he died unexpectedly at the age of 65. About an unusual scientist.

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From Tagfalter monitoring to World Biodiversity Council: Josef Settele shaped research on species protection far beyond Germany.

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At the age of 65, the biodiversity researcher Josef Settele died. An obituary to a great scientist, warmhearted people and a voice for the protection of our planet, which will be very lacking.

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Prof. Dr. Josef Settele was an agro-ecologist of profession, biodiversity and insect researchers of passion, science communicator of conviction and concern for biodiversity and a great human friend. On 9 October 2026, at the age of 65, he died suddenly and unexpectedly, reports the Environmental Research Center Leipzig. "We lose with him a colleague who [...] The contribution Death of a butterfly researcher: The Environmental Research Center mou…