Hermann von Ihering

Hermann Friedrich Albrecht von Ihering
Hermann von Ihering
Born	October 9, 1850(1850-10-09) Kiel
Died	24 February 1930(1930-02-24) (aged 79) Gießen
Residence	Brazil and Germany
Nationality	German
Known for	Hermann von Ihering

Hermann von Ihering (9 October 1850 - 24 February 1930) was a German-Brazilian zoologist. He was born at Kiel, Germany, and died at Gießen, Germany. He was the oldest son of Rudolf von Jhering.

Biography

Ihering studied medicine at the Giessen, Leipzig, and Berlin, and Göttingen, working as an assistant at the zoological institute in Göttingen. He later worked as a Privatdozent for zoology at the Erlangen and Leipzig.

Ihering travelled to Brazil in 1880 and got his first work at the National Museum of Rio de Janeiro, in Rio de Janeiro. He was the founder and first director of the Museu Paulista, in São Paulo in 1894. In 1920 Ihering returned to Germany, and in 1921 he settled with his second wife, Meta, in Büdingen. Meta died 1928.

The Brazilian water mite Unionicola iheringi (Koenike, 1890) is named in his honour.

Bibliography

His bibliography include 310 works; 20 of these works are about birds.

He was the author of Catálogos da Fauna Brasileira (1907) with his son Rudolpho von Ihering.

• 1877. Vergleichende Anatomie des Nervensystemes und Phylogenie der Mollusken.
• 1904. The Anthropology of the state of S. Paulo, Brazil.
• 1922. Phylogenie und System der Mollusken.

References

• Book Os Fascinantes Caminhos da Paleontologia. Author : Antônio Isaia. Publisher Pallotti. (Portuguese)
• Book: "Cronologia Histórica de Santa Maria e do extinto município de São Martinho." 1787-1933. Vol I. Author: Romeu Beltrão, Publisher Pallotti, 1958. (Portuguese)

External links

• works by Hermann von Ihering at Internet Archive
• Ethnographic works by Hermann von Ihering at the Curt Nimuendajú Digital Library