of Arts and Sciences. Von Koenigswald studied the relationships between African, Asian and European hominoid fossils attributed to Ramapithecus or its close allies such as Graecopithecus of Greece and Kenyapithecus of Fort Ternan, Kenya. It was his opinion that the Indian form was a hominid and the African form a pongid. This later led him to strongly press the claim of India as the original home of the Hominidae. After retiring from the Chair at Utrecht, the Werner-Reimers Foundation provided him with facilities at the Senckenberg Nature Research Society and Natural History Museum in Frankfurt, Germany. He, with the support of J. L. Franzen, directed this paleontological research center for the remaining 14 years of his life. Von Koenigswald died at his home in Bad Homburg near Frankfurt-am-Main in West Germany on July 10, 1982. Works Evolution of Man University of Michigan Press, Ann Arbor Paperback Series, Revised edition, 1976. . Meeting Prehistoric Man Lowe & Brydone (printers) LTD, London, Scientific Book Club Edition, 1956. See also List of fossil sites (with link directory) List of hominina (hominid) fossils (with images) Sources Tattersall, Ian and Schwartz, Jeffrey. "Extinct Humans". Westview Press, Boulder, Colorado and Cumnor Hill, Oxford, 2000. (hc) References External links Biography of von Koenigswald (in Dutch) 1902 births 1982 deaths German paleontologists German paleoanthropologists Dutch paleontologists Foreign associates of the National Academy of Sciences Members of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences World War II civilian prisoners held by Japan Academic staff of Utrecht University Scientists from Berlin 20th-century German scientists