caption death_date birth_date known_for image article_title name occupation
hans reck 4 august 1937 24 january 1886 1913 discovery of olduvai skeleton hans reck.jpg hans reck
 hans gottfried reck paleontologist
hans reck

hans gottfried reck -lrb- 24 january 1886 -- 4 august 1937 -rrb- was a german volcanologist and paleontologist .
in 1913 he was the first to discover the ancient skeleton of a human in the olduvai gorge , in what is now tanzania .
he collaborated with louis leakey in a return expedition to the site in 1931 .
