Date of Birth: 
About Max Schlemmer
- Maximilian Joseph August Schlemmer (April 13, 1856 – June 13, 1935), known as the "King of Laysan," was a German immigrant to the United States who settled in Hawaii and spent fifteen years from 1894 to 1915 living with his family on the Hawaiian island of Laysan as superintendent of a guano mining operation.
- Schlemmer was interested in the birdlife of the island and made several studies which provide information on historic bird populations.
- However, Schlemmer and his family unwittingly introduced rabbits to Laysan, leading to the extinction of the Laysan rail and Laysan millerbird and permanently changed the island's ecology in the early 20th century.
- A biography of Schlemmer was written by his grandson, Tom Unger.
Read more at Wikipedia