16 Facts About Hermann Burmeister

Karl Hermann Konrad Burmeister was a German Argentine zoologist, entomologist, herpetologist, botanist, and coleopterologist.

Hermann Burmeister served as a professor at the University of Halle, headed the museum there and published the Handbuch der Entomologie before moving to Argentina where he worked until his death.

Hermann Burmeister studied medicine at Greifswald and Halle, and in 1830 went to Berlin to qualify himself to be a teacher of natural history.

Hermann Burmeister's dissertation was titled De insectorum systemate naturali and graduated as a doctor of medicine on November 4,1829 and then received a doctor of philosophy on December 19 in the same year.

Hermann Burmeister then joined for military service in Berlin and Grunberg.

Hermann Burmeister was after appointed an instructor in the gymnasium at Cologne.

Hermann Burmeister later became a professor of zoology at the Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg serving there from 1837 to 1861.

Hermann Burmeister traveled to Brazil from 1850 to 1852, partly supported through the efforts of Alexander von Humboldt was cut short by a leg injury.

Hermann Burmeister then visited Argentina from 1857 to 1860, returning to Germany with zoological collections.

Hermann Burmeister was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 1856.

Hermann Burmeister married an Argentine woman and they had two sons, Carlos and Federico.

Hermann Burmeister headed the Academy of Sciences, formed from the scientific faculty of Argentina's National University of Cordoba.

Hermann Burmeister took an interest in paleontology and was keenly interested in protecting fossils in the pampas region and helped the passage of a law.

Hermann Burmeister mistakenly described a bovid atlas as belonging to Macrauchenia patachonica.

Hermann Burmeister was said to be harsh and did not have any close circle of friends.

Hermann Burmeister was a critic of Darwinism, he rejected common descent.