Johann Heinrich Blasius

See also: Blasius

Johann Heinrich Blasius is a German zoologist , born the October 7th 1809 with Eckenbach close to Cologne and dead the May 26th 1870 with Brunswick.

He is the son of Johann Heinrich Blasius and Louis Catherine born Eckenbach. He studies the Natural history with Berlin. He teaches this discipline in Collegium Carolinum of Brunswick starting from 1836. It Marie in 1841 with Louise Thiele, union of which he will have a son, Rudolf.

Johann Heinrich Blasius constitutes an important collection of natural history and founds the Muséum of Brunswick in 1859. He is in particular the author with Alexander von Keyserling (1833-1889) of Die Wirbelthiere Europas (1840), of Reise in europäischen Russland in den Jahren 1840 und 1841 (1844) and of Fauna der Wirbelthiere Deutschlands (1857).

He makes important research on the Oiseau X and the Mammifère S. Its sons, Rudolf Heinrich Paul Blasius (1842-1907) and Wilhelm August Heinrich Blasius (1845-1912), are both ornithologists.

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