Darwin Correspondence Project

German naturalist and museum director. Officer in the army, 1866–71. Manager of an estate in Miesbach until 1875. Assistant librarian, state library, Mainz, 1875; taxidermist and librarian, 1878. Assembled the biological collection in Offenbach, 1880–2. From 1880, took an interest in meteorology and set up a weather station in the electoral palace at Mainz. Curator and city official, 1898. Honorary doctorate, Gießen, 1907. First director of the Natural History Museum, Mainz, 1910.