Adolf Bernhard Meyer
German anthropologist, ornithologist, entomologist and herpetologist / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Adolf Bernhard Meyer (11 October 1840, Hamburg – 22 August 1911, Dresden) was a German anthropologist, ornithologist, entomologist, and herpetologist. He served for nearly thirty years as director of the Königlich Zoologisches und Anthropologisch-Ethnographisches Museum (now the natural history museum or Museum für Tierkunde Dresden) in Dresden. He worked on comparative anatomy and appreciated the ideas of evolution, and influenced many German scientists by translating into German the 1858 papers by Darwin and Wallace which first proposed evolution by natural selection. Influenced by the writings of Wallace with whom he interacted, he travelled to Southeast Asia, and collected specimens and recorded his observations from the region.
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Born | 11 October 1840 Hamburg |
Died | 5 February 1911 (aged 70) Berlin |
Occupation | Zoologist, ethnologist |
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