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2 unusual facts about Museum für Naturkunde


Heliocheilus thomalae

Gaede named this species after Miss Thomala, preparator at the Berlin Museum für Naturkunde who draw his attention on this species.

Richard Heymons

Heymons actively studied tongue worms (Pentastomida) and his collection of these animals is held in the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin.


1815 in birding and ornithology

Karl Heinrich Bergius arrives in Cape Town in order to make natural history collections for the Berlin Museum

Dysalotosaurus

In 2011 paleontologists Florian Witzmann and Oliver Hampe from the Museum für Naturkunde and colleagues discovered that deformations of some Dysalotosaurus bones were likely caused by a viral infection similar to Paget's disease of bone.

Emilie Snethlage

Snethlage was a doctor in Natural Philosophy and had been a zoological assistant at the Berlin Natural History Museum before being hired by Emílio Goeldi for the natural history museum in Belém on the recommendation of Dr. A. Reichenow.

Erich Martin Hering

He was a curator in the Museum für Naturkunde in Berlin, where his collections of Lepidoptera, Coleoptera, Hymenoptera, Diptera are conserved.His collections of Agromyzidae are shared between MfN and the Agricultural School at Portici now part of the University of Naples Federico II.

Friedrich Robert von Beringe

He sent them to the Natural History Museum Museum für Naturkunde in Berlin, where they were examined and documented by Paul Matschie.

Hans Bischoff

He was Kustos or curator of Hymenoptera (and Neuropterida) at Museum für Naturkunde (Berlin) from 1921 until 1955.

Plusiopalpa hildebrandti

Saalmüller named this species after the botanist and traveller J.M. Hildebrandt who discovered this, and other species for the collection of the Königliches Museum für Naturkunde (Royal Museum for Natural History), Berlin and who died in May 1881 in Antananarivo.

Theodor Johannes Krüper

He also sold collections to the dealerships "Otto Staudinger - Andreas Bang-Haas" and Wilhelm Schlüter from which they were sold on to several institutions including Museum für Naturkunde in Berlin and the now Slovak National Museum in Bratislava.


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