Hermann Martin Asmuss (31 May 1812 – 6 December 1859) was a

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paleozoologist and professor at the

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. Asmuss was born in Dorpat, present-day

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, as the son of writer Johann Martin Asmuss and Christine Luise Asmuss, ''née'' Luhde. He studied at the Imperial University of Dorpat and received his doctorate from the Albertus University of Königsberg. In 1857 he was made full professor and director of the "Cabinet of natural history" at Tartu university. His main field of work lay in classifying Hemiptera. The lizard species '' Saara asmussi'' is named after him. In 1856 he published ''Das vollkommenste Hautskelet der bisher bekannten Thierreihe''.Hermann Martin Asmuss
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1812 births 1859 deaths Scientists from Tartu People from Kreis Dorpat Baltic-German people Estonian paleontologists German paleontologists Paleozoologists Estonian zoologists 19th-century German zoologists University of Tartu alumni University of Königsberg alumni Academic staff of the University of Tartu {{Estonia-scientist-stub