About Hugo Eisig
Lived 1847 – 1920 (aged 72–73). Hugo Eisig was a zoologist and ichthyologist.
Hugo Eisig (1847, in Baden – 10 February 1920) was a German marine zoologist.
Hugo Eisig was a student of Ernst Haeckel. He served as a first assistant (1872–1909), then as a vice-director at Stazione Zoologica in Naples.
Eisig was an expert on polychaete worms and in 1887 published "Die Capitelliden des Golfes von Neapel und der angrenzenden Meeres-Abschnitte: eine Monographie" (Volume 16 of Fauna und Flora des Golfes von Neapel). He also wrote "Zur Systematik, Anatomie und Morphologie der Ariciiden nebst Beiträgen zur generellen Systematik"; Mitteilungen aus der Zoologischen Station zu Neapel, 21(6): 153–600 (1914).
Taxa Centroderes eisigii (Zelinka, 1928) Cerebratulus eisigii (Hubrecht, 1880)
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Who was Hugo Eisig?
German zoologist (1847–1920)
When was Hugo Eisig born?
Hugo Eisig was born in 1847 in Bruchsal.
When did Hugo Eisig die?
Hugo Eisig died in 1920 in Zurich.
What was Hugo Eisig's occupation?
Hugo Eisig was a zoologist and ichthyologist.
What nationality was Hugo Eisig?
Hugo Eisig's recorded nationality: German Reich.
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