Heinrich Prell

Heinrich Bernward Prell (11 October 1888 – 25 April 1962) was a German zoologist.

Biography

Heinrich Prell came from a family of artists. His father Hermann Prell received a professorship at the Dresden Academy of Fine Arts in 1892. After graduating from high school in 1907, Prell studied medicine and natural sciences at the University of Freiburg, the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, and Marburg University, specializing in zoology. After receiving his doctorate in Marburg in 1913, with a dissertation titled Das Chitinskelett von Eosentomon, ein Beitrag zur Morphologie des Insektenkörpers ("The chitinous skeleton of Eosentomon, a contribution to the morphology of the insect body"), He also dealt with fur animal science and was a member of the special committee for fur animal breeding of the German Agricultural Society in Berlin from 1927 to 1933 and became a member of the expert committee for fur animal breeding at the Reich Center for Fur Animal and Smoked Products Research in Leipzig in 1931. He also dealt with historical zoology, with the mating and gestation periods of some wild species (deer, brown bear, some species of marten) and with the influence of components of hut smoke on the hair loss of red deer.