In 1918 in Munich, Semon committed suicide wrapped in a German flag allegedly because he was depressed by Germany's defeat after World War I.
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Semon's book Die Mneme directly influenced the Mnemosyne project of the idiosyncratic art historian Aby Warburg.
Richard Semon (1859–1918), German zoologist and evolutionary biologist
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