Hermann Landois

Share of the Westfälischer Zoologischer Garten zu Münster, issued 1. February 1874, signed by Hermann Landois Hermann Landois (19 April 1835, Münster – 29 January 1905) was a German zoologist. He was the brother of physiologist Leonard Landois (1837–1902). He belonged to the Catholic popularizers of science who gained attraction in late nineteenth-century Germany.

He studied natural sciences and Catholic theology in Münster, where he was ordained as a priest in 1859. In 1863 he obtained his doctorate in zoology at the University of Greifswald, later becoming an associate professor of zoology at the Academy in Münster (1873).

In 1871 he founded the Westfälischen Vereins für Vogelschutz, Geflügel- und Singvögelzucht (Westphalian Association for bird protection, poultry and songbird breeding), and during the following year founded the Zoologischen Sektion für Westfalen und Lippe (Zoological Division of Westphalia and Lippe). It had a building for the display, cultivation and breeding of various fowl as well as aviaries for songbirds. In 1876 a "monkey house" was constructed.

Among his students was the popular writer Hermann Löns.

Selected writings Lehrbuch der Zoologie (with Bernard Altum), 1868. Thierstimmen, 1874. Das Studium der Zoologie mit besonderer Rücksicht auf das Zeichnen der Tierformen, 1905.