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German zoologist
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Male
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Birth:
4 May 1865(Hanover, Hanover region, Lower Saxony, Germany)
Death:
18 January 1945(Upper Bavaria, Bavaria, Germany)
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University of Göttingen
The details
Biography
Introduction
Heinrich Otto Wilhelm Bürger (4 May 1865 Hannover-18 January 1945, Törwang) was a Germanzoologist who specialised in Nemertea. He studied at several universities and at Stazione Zoologica in Naples. He gained his doctorateat the University of Göttingen under Ernst Ehlers. Between 1900-1908 he was Professor and Director of theZoology museum in Santiago de Chile. He later, still in South America, lived as a gentleman scientist, travel writer and economic geographer.
Works
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- Bürger, 1895. Die Nemertinen des Golfes von Neapel und der angrenzenden Meeres-Abschnitte. Fauna Flora Golf. Neapel, 22: 1-743.Also in: Fauna und Flora des Golfes von Neapel. Zoologischen station zu Neapel (Ed.). Verlag von R. Friedländer & Sohn, Berlin. 568 pp