Hermann von Ihering

Hermann Friedrich Albert von Ihering (Kiel, 9 October 1850 – Giessen, 24 February 1930) was a German Brazilian doctor, professor and ornithologist. He was the oldest son of Rudolf von Jhering.

Between 1893 and 1894, Ihering also helped to found the Museu Paulista, in São Paulo, and became its first director.

The 17 years old Hermann moved to Vienna with his family, but entered the Darmstadt Musketeer Regiment after the start of the Franco-Prussian War, in 1870.

Under the advice of Rudolf Leuckart, Ihering studied medicine at the Giessen, Leipzig, Berlin, and Göttingen universities, working as an assistant at the zoological institute in Göttingen. He concluded his doctoral thesis in Göttingen, with the title Ueber das Wesen der Prognathie und ihr Verlhaeltniss zur Schaedelbasis (On the essence of prognathism and its effect on the base of the skull).

Return to Europe and death

In 1920, Ihering returned to Europe, living first in Naples and later returning to Germany. In 1921, he settled with Meta in Büdingen. Meta died in 1928 and Ihering died in 1930, at Gießen, Germany.

Museu Paulista

On 7 April 1891, the Museu do Estado was idealized, answering to the Geological and Geographical Commission under the temporary leadership of Albert Löfgren. Soon after, the director of the Geological and Geographical Commission, Orville A. Derby, requested the creation of a zoological wing inside the administrative organ. The proposal was approved and Hermann von Ihering was appointed as its first director on 1893.

A reorganization of the Museum by the government was prompted by the recurrent low-availability of resources and experienced human resources. Two laws were subsequently issued (no. 192, 26 August 1893 and no. 200, 29 August 1893) to with this goal, renaming the Museum to Museu Paulista and moving the facility to the Monument to the Independence of Brazil. The two orders were effected by the next year, with Ihering holding the office of director. The Museu was re-inaugurated at 7 September 1895 by a solemn ceremony.

Brucepattersonius iheringi (rodent)
Bryconamericus iheringii (fish)
Choeradoplana iheringi (land planarian)
Enyalius iheringii (lizard)
Myrmotherula iheringi (antbird)
Phyllomedusa iheringii (frog)
Phalloptychus iheringii (fish), junior synonym for Phalloptychus januarius
Trinomys iheringi (Ihering's Atlantic spiny rat)
Unio iheringi (freshwater mussel)
Unionicola iheringi (water mite)

The peer-reviewed scientific journal Iheringia was also named after him.

Bibliography

His bibliography include 310 works; 20 of these works are about birds.

He was the author of Catálogos da Fauna Brasileira (1907) with his son Rodolpho von Ihering.

(1877). Vergleichende Anatomie des Nervensystemes und Phylogenie der Mollusken. Leipzig: Engelmann. x + 290 pp. + Plates I-VIII. (in German).
(1880). "Beiträge zur Kenntniss der Nudibranchien des Mittelmeeres. Part 1. (1. Chromodoris, 2. Doriopsis, 3. Cadlina.)" Malakozoologische Blätter N.F. 2: 57-112. (in German).
(1886). "Zur kenntnis der Nudibranchien der brasilianischen kuste. Jahrbücher der Deutschen ". Malakozoologischen Gesellschaft 13 (3): 223–240. (in German).
(1886). "Beiträge zur Kenntniss der Nudibranchien des Mittelmeeres, Part 2. 4. Die Polyceraden ". Malakozoologische Blätter N.F. 8: 12–48. (in German).
(1904). The Anthropology of the state of S. Paulo, Brazil.
(1922). Phylogenie und System der Mollusken. (in German).

References

External links

Ethnographic works by Hermann von Ihering at the Curt Nimuendajú Digital Library