Richard Hesse
Richard Hesse (20 February 1868 in
ecologist
.
Hesse took his PhD in 1892 from the
University of Berlin
.
Hesse worked in the spirit of
vertebrates. He published Tierbau und Tierleben [translated title: Animal form and life] in 1910 together with Franz Theodor Doflein. In 1924, he published his Tiergeographie auf Ökologischer Grundlage. The title of this work paraphrases Schimper's classical Pflanzengeographie auf Physiologischer Grundlage (1898). The book was translated to English as Ecological Animal Geography (1937, 1951) by W.C. Allee and Karl P. Schmidt.[1]
References
- Schmidt, K.P., 1951. Ecological Animal Geography: An Authorized, Rewritten edition, 2nd, based on Tiergeographie auf oekologischer Grundlage by Richard Hesse. John Wiley & Sons, New York.