David Friedrich Weinland
1829–1915
German theologian and zoologist. Travelled extensively in North America and Haiti. Assistant to Louis Agassiz, 1855–8. Lecturer in zoology at the Senckenberg Museum, Frankfurt, and secretary of the Zoological Society, 1858. Founder and editor of Der zoologische Garten, 1859. Director of the Senckenberg naturalists’ society, 1859–63.
Sources
DBE
Zoologischer Beobachter 57 (1916): 160
Bibliography
DBE: Deutsche biographische Enzyklopädie. Edited by Walter Killy et al. 12 vols. in 14. Munich: K. G. Saur. 1995–2000.
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