Alexander Koenig, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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German naturalist
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Place of Birth: Saint Petersburg
About Alexander Koenig
- Alexander Ferdinand Koenig (20 February 1858 – 16 July 1940) was a German naturalist and zoologist. Koenig was born at St Petersburg, Russia where his father was a successful merchant.
- He grew up in Bonn.
- Koenig became interested in natural history at an early age and started to collect specimens.
- He studied zoology at the universities of Greifswald, Kiel, Berlin and Marburg, where he received his doctorate in with a thesis on Mallophaga, "Ein Beitrag zur Mallophagenfauna".
- He funded expeditions to the Spitzbergen region of the Arctic and to Africa, where he visited Egypt and Sudan — on six separate occasions he traveled to the Nile.With his collections he founded the Museum Koenig in Bonn in 1912.
- The museum collection includes specimens Koenig collected from even early in his life.
- He died in Mecklenburg.
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