Hermann Martin Asmuss
Baltic German paleozoologist
About Hermann Martin Asmuss
Lived 1812 – 1859 (aged 46–47). Hermann Martin Asmuss was a Russian paleontologist, university teacher and zoologist.
Hermann Martin Asmuss (31 May 1812 – 6 December 1859) was a Baltic German paleozoologist and professor at the Imperial University of Dorpat.
Life Asmuss was born in Dorpat, present-day Estonia, the son of the writer Johann Martin Asmuss and Christine Luise Asmuss, née Luhde. He studied at the Imperial University of Dorpat and received his doctorate from the Albertus University of Königsberg. In 1857 he was made a full professor and director of the Cabinet of Natural History at the University of Tartu. His main field of work was in classifying Hemiptera. The lizard species Saara asmussi is named after him.
In 1856, he published Das vollkommenste Hautskelet der bisher bekannten Thierreihe.
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Who was Hermann Martin Asmuss?
Baltic German paleozoologist (1812–1859)
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Hermann Martin Asmuss was born in 1812 in Tartu.
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Hermann Martin Asmuss died in 1859 in Tartu.
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Hermann Martin Asmuss was a paleontologist, university teacher and zoologist.
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Hermann Martin Asmuss was Russian.
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