Alexander Ferdinand Koenig
See also: Koenig
Koenig, Alexander Ferdinand is a Zoologiste and German Ornithologue (Saint-Pétersbourg, February 20th 1858 - Bonn, July 16th 1940) Resulting from a family of sugar industrialists, established in Russia since the 18th century, it grows in Bonn where his/her father had bought a villa, on the edges of the the Rhine. He studied the zoology in the Universities of Greifswald and Marbourg.
He becomes doctor of natural science, in 1884, presenting a thesis on the Taxonomie of the mallophages. He financed many forwardings in the artic regions (Spitzberg) and in north and the North-East of the Africa (Egypt and Sudan) where he collected many birds and large Mammifères whose two Girafe S which is still visible with the natural history museum of Bonn that he founded in 1903. Its fortune becoming exhausted, it made gift of its institute at the German State but remained the director until his death about it.
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