Brehm

Brehm, Alfred Edmund, naturalist, was born in 1829 at Renthendorf, in Thuringia. He was a wide traveller, and in 1863 became keeper of the Hamburg Zoological Garden, founding the Berlin Aquarium in 1867. His chief work, Illustrirtes Thierleben, was published in 1876-79, and comprises 10 volumes. He died in 1884 at Renthendorf.