Alexander Koenig
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Alexander Koenig
born 8.2.1858 in St. Petersburg, died 16.7.1940 on Blücherhof Estate in Mecklenburg
The ornithologist and zoologist Alexander Koenig lived in Germany from 1867 and
obtained his doctorate in Marburg in 1884. He undertook numerous research
expeditions and, with the inheritance from his father Leopold, founded the Zoological
Research Institute and Museum Alexander Koenig in Bonn.