(1833-1857)
• daughter of Alfred Edmund Brehm.
- German zoologist, natural history writer and
illustrator.
illustrator.
- co-authored popular zoology book “Brehms
Tierleben”.
Tierleben”.
- studied at the University of Jena.
-first director of the Zoological Garden of Hamburg.
- lecture tour in the USA in 1983-4.
- died in Germany of malaria caught during expediton
to Africa.
to Africa.
- Brehm Memorial Museum in his home town of
Renthedorf, Germany.
Renthedorf, Germany.
• Thekla Lark named in memory of his daugther who
died of heart disease in 1858.
died of heart disease in 1858.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thekla_Lark
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Edmund_Brehm
Beolent, B and M Watkns, Whose Bird? 2003 Yale Univ. Press)
Thekla Brehm
Alfred Edmund Brehm
- 2Feb1829 - 11Nov1884