Brehm, ALFRED EDMUND

Brehm, ALFRED EDMUND, naturalist, was born 2d February 1829, at Renthendorf, in Thuringia, and was son of the pastor there, Christian Ludwig Brehm (1787–1864), a great ornithologist. Young Brehm travelled five years in Africa, then went to Jena and Vienna to study natural science. He subsequently travelled in Spain, Norway, Lapland, Siberia, and Turkestan, became keeper of the Hamburg Zoological Garden in 1863, in 1867 founded the Berlin Aquarium, and died in his native place, 11th November 1884. His magnum opus is the Illustriertes Thierleben (2d ed. 10 vols. 1876–79).