photographs. Return to Austria After the death of Franz Steindarcher on 10 December 1919, Pietschmann became the curator of the fish collection at the Museum of Natural History in Vienna, a position he held until 1946. During his career, Pietschmann went on a number of trips around the world, including to Hawaii (1927), Anatolia (1931), Poland, and Romania. He is accredited with discovering the prickly shark. He described the shark as a new species in two separate publications: a brief German account in a 1928 volume of Anzeiger der Akademie der Wissenschaften in Wien and a more detailed English account in a 1930 volume of Bernice P. Bishop Museum Bulletin. Pietschmann named the shark in honor of C. Montague Cooke Jr., a conchologist at the Bishop Museum. In 1930, Pietschmann married Margarete August Keldorfer. They had four children. Viktor Pietschmann joined the Nazi Party in 1932, though little is known about his activities as a member. Later life Due to his previous affiliation with the Nazi Party, Pietschmann was forced to retire in 1946. He died on 24 November 1956. Publications Some of his publications include: Expedition nach Mesopotamien im Jahre 1910. 1911. Bandfische und "Grosse Seeschlange". 1922. Eis und Palmen – Reiseskizzen aus Nord und Süd. Wilhelm Braumüller Verlag, Wien 1927. Durch kurdische Berge und armenische Städte. Adolf Luser Verlag, Wien 1940. Führer durch die Sonderschau "Ostmarkdeutsche als Forscher und Sammler in unseren Kolonien": Ein Anteil der Ostmark an der Erforschung und Erschließung der deutschen Kolonialgebiete. Waldheim-Eberle, Wien 1940. See also ZOBODAT list of his publications See also Witnesses and testimonies of the Armenian genocide References 20th-century Austrian zoologists 1881 births 1956 deaths Austrian ichthyologists Witnesses of the Armenian genocide Scientists from Vienna