11 Facts About Emilie Snethlage

Maria Emilie Snethlage was a German-born Brazilian naturalist and ornithologist who worked on the bird fauna of the Amazon.

Emilie Snethlage was the director of the Museu Paraense Emilio Goeldi from 1914 to 1922.

Maria Emilie Snethlage was born in Kraatz in the Province of Brandenburg, Prussia, and educated privately by her father Rev Emil Snethlage, a Lutheran pastor, after the death of her mother.

Emilie Snethlage became interested in nature at an early age through the book Entdeckungsreisen in Feld und Flur by Hermann Wagner and she collected plants for a herbarium apart from sending notes on birds to Rudolf Blasius at a young age.

Emilie Snethlage was not to ask any questions during class and had to leave the premises only fifteen minutes after the end of the class.

Emilie Snethlage then worked as a zoological assistant at the Berlin Natural History Museum before being hired by Emilio Goeldi for the natural history museum in Belem on the recommendation of Dr A Reichenow.

Emilie Snethlage became the director of the Museu Paraense Emilio Goeldi, after the death of botanist Jacques Huber, between 1914 and 1922.

Emilie Snethlage was granted honorary membership in the British Ornithologists' Union in 1915.

Emilie Snethlage died of heart failure in Porto Velho, Rondonia, and was buried at the cemetery of inocentes while on a field trip.

Emilie Snethlage's nephew was the ethnologist Dr Emil Heinrich Snethlage.

Emilie Snethlage is commemorated in the common and scientific names of the Emilia's marmoset, known as Emilie Snethlage's marmoset, and the scientific names of two species of South American reptiles: Atractus snethlageae, a snake; and Loxopholis snethlageae, a gymnophthalmid lizard.