Max Hilzheimer, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Max Hilzheimer

German zoologist

Date of Birth: 15-Nov-1877

Place of Birth: Kehnert, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany

Date of Death: 10-Jan-1946

Profession: zoologist, non-fiction writer, mammalogist

Nationality: Germany

Zodiac Sign: Scorpio


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About Max Hilzheimer

  • Otto Jacob Max Hilzheimer (15 November 1877, Kehnert - 10 January 1946, Berlin-Charlottenburg) was a German zoologist who specialized in the mammals and was a pioneer of conservation in Berlin.
  • He was also an expert on domestic animals in antiquity. Max was born to Alfred and Johanna née Pringsheim (Max's uncle Nathaniel Pringsheim was a botanist).
  • Max studied zoology at Strasbourg and Munich and worked under Richard Hertwig with a doctoral thesis on the Hypopharynx of Hymenoptera.
  • In 1904 he was in southern France at the Laboratoire Russe de Zoologie von Villefranche-sur-Mer.
  • He worked at the Strasbourg Museum and habilitated from the Technical University, Stuttgart in 1907.
  • Hilzheimer was a co-founder of the German Society for Mammalogy in 1926 along with Hermann Pohle and Kurt Ohnesorge.
  • He was also a pioneer conservationist who established a nature conservation unit in Berlin in March, 1927.
  • This would later become the Berlin Commission for Natural Heritage Management with him as the first commissioner.
  • He was also a director at the Märkisches Museum until January 1936.
  • In 1935, his German citizenship was withdrawn due to his Jewish background and he was removed from all positions in 1936.
  • His position was taken by Johannes Karl Wilhelm Klose (1880-1963).
  • He married Walburga Münzhuber, from a Catholic family, in 1907, and it was through her efforts that he survived the Nazi period.
  • He lived in seclusion and died in 1946.Hilzheimer was an expert on the antiquity of the breeds of dog, sheep and horse.

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