Alfred Edmund Brehm
1829–84
German zoologist and traveller. Travelled in Egypt and the Sudan, Spain, Norway and Lapland, Siberia, and Turkestan. Studied natural history in Jena and Vienna, 1853–6. Director of the zoological gardens, Hamburg, 1862–7. Founded the aquarium in Berlin, 1867. Published books and articles on zoology.
Sources
ADB
BHGW.
Bibliography
ADB: Allgemeine deutsche Biographie. Under the auspices of the Historical Commission of the Royal Academy of Sciences. 56 vols. Leipzig: Duncker & Humblot. 1875–1912.
BHGW: Biographisch-literarisches Handwörterbuch zur Geschichte der exacten Wissenschaften enthaltend Nachweisung über Lebensverhältnisse und Leistungen von Mathematikern, Astronomen, Physikern, Chemikern, Mineralogen, Geologen usw. By Johann Christian Poggendorff. 5 vols. Leipzig: Johann Ambrosius Barth; Verlag Chemie. 1863–1926.
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